RE: French / English dictionary
- From: "Midence, Alex" <MidenceA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 12:05:27 -0600
Wow. That's pretty impressive. What sort of scripting needs to be done for
such a thing? I'm intrigued. Does each line intself have a tag on it?
Does it go by diacritics? In german, one uses the umlauts and the ess-tset,
does jaws go by that as opposed to the tildes, circumflexes and accutes of
portugues or the grave accents of italian? Is there a special font
corresponding to each language? How, for instance, would Jaws know to
switch in order to read the sentence: Ich habe kein Gelt mehr. Or, the
sentence: No tengo dinero.
I am truly fascinated.
Thanks,
Alex Midence
-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Neufeld [mailto:jerry.neufeld@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 11:44 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: French / English dictionary
No. This is not correct. I use UltraLingua's French, Spanish, Italian and
Portuguese/English dictionaries all the time and, with appropriate
scripting, assuming you are using Eloquence, each time a line in the
opposite language is encountered, the synthesizer automatically switches to
that language, then back again when necessary. They work magnificently well.
Jerry
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of bbinc
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 10:28 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: French / English dictionary
Hi Robert
The problem you will have is that Jaws will be pronouncing each language in
the language set by Jaws. In other words, if your Jaws is set to English
then it will try to read the French words as English and pronounce them
accordingly.
Incidentally, when I could see translation dictionaries had two sections,
both English to the foreign language and the other way around.
Good luck with your search.
Barry
I found that ssage -----
From: "Robert McCoy" <rmccoy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Jfw (E-mail)" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 2:59 PM
Subject: French / English dictionary
Anyone know of a jaws friendly French/English dictionary?
I am English speaking and enrolling in a French course for the first time.
So, I am unsure if I want a French/English or an English/French dictionary.
Thanks a bunch for your words of wisdom
Robert McCoy
(506) 459-6636
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