RE: changing language situation
- From: "Lisle, Ted \(CHFS DMS\)" <Ted.Lisle@xxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:37:02 -0500
He clarified matters for me when he mentioned the scanning engine.
That has to be the X factor.
Ted
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Flor Lynch
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 9:16 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: changing language situation
perhaps, as with html, there are document languiage tags which
may be associated with .pdf files? In JAWS8, you can stop a different
'dialect' version of same language from comingg up. (Hazy on precise
details, as I mostly use an Apollo 2 external synthesiser.)
----- Original Message -----
From: Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS) <mailto:Ted.Lisle@xxxxxx>
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 1:39 PM
Subject: RE: changing language situation
That's interesting. all that should have been required
was going back to the language menu, as described in your note, and
reselecting the English version of Eloquence. Fortunately, given the
heavily accented English, it's the first choice on that submenu. There
must be other issues in play, if you had that much trouble.
That language can be a tricky thing. I've had some PDF
files that defaulted to a British accent, for reasons I was never able
to fathom. It's my personal opinion that British Eloquence sounds more
than a little silly, and any UK native would find it totally ridiculous.
However, as you point out, the actual foreign languages can be a God
send on texts written in that language, or even for occasional words and
phrases, which don't phoneticize properly in English.
Ted
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Smith
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:58 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: changing language situation
Dear list,
Sorry the following turned out so long, but do
need help!
Being interested in learning German, I found a
couple of web sites that look promising. I thought, though, that before
down loading anything I should check to see if Jaws would be able to
read that language properly when it appears on the screen. I went to
Jaws 6 which is on my desktop, entered, which brought up the context
menu. I entered on open; found language, and entered, found two items:
Jaws language, which as I remember contained American English, English,
and Spanish. (sorry this is getting so long)! closed that, and on the
previous list found, language synthesizer. Entered on that, and lo and
behold found a long list of foreign languages including German. Entered
on that dis covered it did a really good job of reading everything in my
computer with a almost un-understandable German accent; but did a
beautiful job with some real German I typed in.
Now the problem. I couldn't turn off the German
talk!!! I tried everything I know-which isn't very much; including
reboot, complete turn off. German was still there when computer turned
back on. Finally after a couple of hours, and an over-night rest and
turning on computer again, and some more piking around, German
disappeared and English Jaws returned. My question finally is, what
should I do to close down the use of German and returning to English?
Bob Smith
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