Re: An observation
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:36:17 -0700
Never having encountered a Web page in a language other than English (when I
do a Google search, I either opt for English-only results or pass over
results not in English), I'd like to know one thing. If you have Spanish
installed with Eloquence, and load a Spanish-language Web page, I assume
Jaws switches to speaking Spanish, yes? But when you open a Web page in a
language you haven't installed with Eloquence, or which, like the Swedish
example, doesn't even exists as a possibility with eloquence, what does Jaws
do? Does it say "Swedish," for instance, and then speak the words on the
page in a meaningless garble?
thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 6:22 AM
Subject: Re: An observation
I've worked it out. Basically if the language for a particular
synthesizer isn't available, such as Swedish for Eloquence, which
doesn't exist anyway, JAWS will announce the language to which the page
was written in. However, if you turn language detection off, JAWS will
not do this. Thanks for the explanation!
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:12:24 -0700, "Richard Sherman"
<squirman@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Hi,
> You are not imagining or hearing things.
>
> I too have the language detection turned off by default.
>
> I first checked the site out with language detection turned off and did
> not
> hear what you claimed. Then I turned this option back on thru the jaws
> verbosity and heard that magic word.
>
> I am using 7.1 on an xp system with all the updates.
>
> Rich
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kelly Pierce
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 4:27 AM
>
>
> Last year I found the quirk of JAWS jumping into British English while
> surfing the web. I eventually disabled the auto language functionality
> so
> JAWS would speak in American English all the time.
>
> Kelly
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 5:48 AM
>
> Hi all,
> This is not a bug as you can see from the subject line, but if you go
> to
>
> http://access.getwf.com JAWS announces "swedish". I thought this word
>
> was on the web page, but when I navigated it using previous or next
> character the word wasn't there. Does anyone else have this? I assume
> it's part of the language features of JAWS and HTML, but wanted to make
> sure. Thanks! P.S. Using JAWS 8.0.423 demo and Mozilla Firefox 2.0.4
> when testing this out.
> Christopher Hallsworth
Christopher Hallsworth
E-mail: chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Skype name chrishallsworth7266
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