Thanks Dana, that was very instructive. On an unrelated note, JAWS without Dictionary modification, does a superb job of pronouncing your name as D O N N A, as you obviously know. On a guitar list I am on, one fellow named Kelly has to often educate folks to the fact that he is not a she and it gets tiresome for him too, FWIW. Mitch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dana S. Leslie" <dsleslie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 5:31 AM Subject: Re: What causes JAWS to change speech on the fly? Some web pages use an HTML(?) tag to specify the language in which their text is written. (This, I think, is so that search engines can sort them according to the language criterion.) When JAWS detects this tag, and the relevant language driver is installed, the eloquence engine will use the appropriate accent and pronunciation rules. If a page is coded with multiple languages, or doesn't specify a language until part way down the page, you'll hear eloquence switch languages/accents in the middle of a page. Blessed Be, Dana that's Dayna, D A N A, NOT Donna, D O N N A D. S. Leslie, née C. R. Guttman Email: DSLeslie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Skype: dsleslie Web: ÞE OL' PHILOSOPHIE SHOPPE Your Source for Discounted Ideas http://members.cox.net/dsleslie2/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Mitchell" <mitch44@xxxxxxxxx> To: "jfw list" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 8:00 AM Subject: What causes JAWS to change speech on the fly? > Hi All, I have a friend in Europe. > When reading her messages, they sometimes switch automatically on the fly > to > an accented English. > What triggers this if you know. > Thanks, Mitch > > -- > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to > jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > > If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or > the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather > contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx