[jaws-uk] Re: Speaking in French/German accents
- From: "Jamie Cuthbertson" <jamie.cuthbertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:58:17 -0000
Hi Ken,
Like you, I've noticed this from time to time over the last few Jaws
releases though I've never been able to identify why it happens. In fact,
just recently I had it happen in a table I was reading but the odd thing was
that it only did it when I went into particular cells on the table by using
down arrow. If I moved onto the same piece of text by using the Tab key, it
read things as I would have expected it to!! Explain that one if you can!!
In a particular document, I think that the best way to try to get Jaws
speaking properly is to select the whole document and then go to the Tools
Language dialogue box and reset the document language to be English UK.
Don't forget to save it also.
Hopefully that will sort it for that document but it doesn't explain why the
odd pronunciation happens in the first place.
Regards,
Jamie
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From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Ken Reid
Sent: 14 January 2011 09:43
To: Jaws Users
Subject: [jaws-uk] Speaking in French/German accents
All,
From time to time, I find Jaws suddenly decides to speak in a very heavy
French or German accent. This can happen on web sites (I use IE8), Word
documents (Word 2007) and emails (Windows Mail). All these are being run on
Jaws Vista and Jaws 11, but I do remember this happening in the past with XP
and earlier versions of Jaws, and earlier versions of the applications too.
I rather assume there is some sort of formatting in the document that makes
Jaws behave like this, but I can never find anything, and sighted people who
originate the documents can't see anything to trigger the change.
Sometimes, after reading in this accent for a while, Jaws will switch back
to English, but it is then an old Jaws voice that is being used (old in Jaws
terms rather than sounding like an aged person).
Does anyone else experience this, is it something in my settings, or is it
in the document. If the latter, can I do anything about it or do I need to
go back to source?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Ken
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