RE: changing language situation
- From: "Lisle, Ted \(CHFS DMS\)" <Ted.Lisle@xxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:39:36 -0500
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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