Hello. The keystroke for changing language on-the-fly is "control + Windows key + L". I think this keystroke is a little bit easier than having to go through the Jaws context menu especially if you are in a language that you do not understand at the moment. This keystroke brings up a list of languages in a list box for you to choose from. I hope this helps. Chris. -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Flor Lynch Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 7:07 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: changing language situation 1. Bring up the JAWS context menu. 2. Down-arrow twice, and right-arrow once. 3. Down-arrow once, and right-arrow once. You are now in the Synthesizer Language Submenu, from where you choose your language. ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Smith <mailto:rrrsmith@xxxxxxx> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 8:57 PM Subject: changing language situation Dear list, Sorry the following turned out so long, but do need help! Being interested in learning German, I found a couple of web sites that look promising. I thought, though, that before down loading anything I should check to see if Jaws would be able to read that language properly when it appears on the screen. I went to Jaws 6 which is on my desktop, entered, which brought up the context menu. I entered on open; found language, and entered, found two items: Jaws language, which as I remember contained American English, English, and Spanish. (sorry this is getting so long)! closed that, and on the previous list found, language synthesizer. Entered on that, and lo and behold found a long list of foreign languages including German. Entered on that dis covered it did a really good job of reading everything in my computer with a almost un-understandable German accent; but did a beautiful job with some real German I typed in. Now the problem. I couldn't turn off the German talk!!! I tried everything I know-which isn't very much; including reboot, complete turn off. German was still there when computer turned back on. Finally after a couple of hours, and an over-night rest and turning on computer again, and some more piking around, German disappeared and English Jaws returned. My question finally is, what should I do to close down the use of German and returning to English? Bob Smith __________ NOD32 1913 (20061209) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx