Hi Alice; This is only a guess but, if you press the Jaws / insert key + V, for Jaws options, then press the letter " L ", until you land on "Language Detect ", and this is off, press the spacebar to turn it on, and see if that helps. Take care. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alice Dampman Humel" <alicedh@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 1:01 AM Subject: setting synthesizer language Hi, all, This one has me completely stumped. I copied and pasted an opera libretto in German into a wordpad document as a .txt file. I set the language in JAWS to German as I've done a zillion times. But when I switched to this document and tried to read it, JAWS read the German as though it were English. Any idea what's going on? Alice alicedh@xxxxxxxxxxx -- 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 Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html 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 -- 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 Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html 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