[jaws-uk] Re: Speaking in French/German accents
- From: "Jamie Cuthbertson" <jamie.cuthbertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:06:40 -0000
Hi Doris,
This is true but I've seen it happen in documents where the whole document
is meant to be English and, for some unknown reason, Jaws just decides that
it is going to switch to French or German or some other language. I guess
it is possible that the author has inadvertently put in a different language
code (perhaps there is a keystroke that can be pressed accidentally) but on
some occasions, the author has no idea how it is happening either.
Jamie
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Sent: 14 January 2011 10:07
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Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Speaking in French/German accents
Hi,
This is something in the coding of the document that - if properly
coded - lets jaws know that it is in another language. For us
multilingual units, it could be helpful if jaws automatically
switched the lnaguage and that is what the intent of this jaws
feature is. this said, I am bilingual and have a little bit in
another two languages, and i always turn this feature off. <g>
I am not sure what version of jaws you have and I do not have the
latest and greatest myself. jaws 12 may be different but in several
versions of jaws, this language switching was turned off in
utilities/config manager/text processing.
There is a checkbox about switching languages automatically and
another about generalizing the dialect. i am not sure about the
purpose of the latter (it may have to do with jaws differentiating
between variants of the same language, i.e. British and American
English or European and Canadian French, etc.) and this seemed to
make jaws just use whatever language I set it to use.
hth
Doris
At 04:42 AM 1/14/2011, you wrote:
>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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