MessageScanning engine? What do you mean? ----- Original Message ----- From: Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS) To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 1:37 PM Subject: RE: changing language situation 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) 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 __________ NOD32 1914 (20061211) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com __________ NOD32 1916 (20061212) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com