[guispeak] Re: British accents with JAWS and IE6
- From: "david poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:20:24 -0500
or cockney? eloq would have to support it and there would have to be
language codes for them but yes, cool indeed and while we are at it, pig
latin and clingon would be usefull as well.
Johnnie Apple Seed
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From: "Christopher Sabine" <jsabine@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 9:54 PM
Subject: [guispeak] Re: British accents with JAWS and IE6
Yeah. BTW. I'm wondering ifFreedom Scientific has ever thought about
having a Brooklyn accent setting, or how bout naarleans. That'd be cool.
Chris.
-----Original Message-----
From: guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Rich Caloggero
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 9:25 PM
To: guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [guispeak] Re: British accents with JAWS and IE6
I have my home machine st to speak in British English all the time now -
I just like it better. Its a bit less harsh ... Oh ya, I live in Boston
Massachusetts!
-- Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bundy, Keith" <Keith.Bundy@xxxxxxx>
To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 4:29 PM
Subject: [guispeak] Re: British accents with JAWS and IE6
> On a bit of a related note, I had a fellow faculty member email me,
> and his signature was spoken in a French accent, even though he is no
> way French. It was humorous!=20
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: guispeak-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:guispeak-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Laura Eaves
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 2:17 PM
> To: guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [guispeak] Re: British accents with JAWS and IE6
>
> Hi Rick! How's the PowerBraille? --
> Anyway, as for the british accent, I can answer that:
> There is a checkbox in the html options of the configuration file of
> jaws that specifies whether to recognize or switch languages on the
> fly, based on the language specification in the html on the web page.
> You can uncheck this box and force it to speak in American English all
> the time. It's kind of funny -- I first ran into this not on the
> internet, but in email sent by people in the UK.
> I am on a list in particular on which are several people in the uk,
and
> I noticed that jaws started talking in British speak whenever I read
> mail from them.
> It was kind of freaky -- but the explanation was easy -- they had just
> sent the mail in html format so naturally jaws and Outlook Express
were
> treating it as a little web page.
>
> It's funny how much harder it is to listen to a different dialect at
> high speed when you aren't used to it. I had to uncheck the offending
> checkbox in jaws in order to read their mail!
>
> Anyway, that's the story.
> And I think it's a relatively new feature, as I only noticed it after
> upgrading jaws -- but I don't remember now when that was or which
> version. Take care, and enjoy!
> --le
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Rick.Roderick@xxxxxx>
> To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 3:06 PM
> Subject: [guispeak] British accents with JAWS and IE6
>
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Why do some pages speak in a British accent, even when they are
> > not=20 British? When I go to:
> > www.ky.gov,
> > I get a British accent. When I go to other pages on the site, the
> accent
> > returns to American English.
> >
> >=20
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