Re: changing language situation
- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:16:26 -0000
Messageperhaps, as with html, there are document languiage tags which may be
associated with .pdf files? In JAWS8, you can stop a different 'dialect'
version of same language from comingg up. (Hazy on precise details, as I
mostly use an Apollo 2 external synthesiser.)
----- Original Message -----
From: Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS)
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 1:39 PM
Subject: RE: changing language situation
That's interesting. all that should have been required was going back to the
language menu, as described in your note, and reselecting the English version
of Eloquence. Fortunately, given the heavily accented English, it's the first
choice on that submenu. There must be other issues in play, if you had that
much trouble.
That language can be a tricky thing. I've had some PDF files that defaulted
to a British accent, for reasons I was never able to fathom. It's my personal
opinion that British Eloquence sounds more than a little silly, and any UK
native would find it totally ridiculous. However, as you point out, the actual
foreign languages can be a God send on texts written in that language, or even
for occasional words and phrases, which don't phoneticize properly in English.
Ted
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Robert Smith
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:58 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
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