[macvoiceover] Re: reading foreign language web pages using safari and vo

  • From: Ignasi Cambra <ignasicambra@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:56:02 -0500

First of all, yes, the voices you can find at assistiveware.com are great. Just 
try using them for 30 days, and buy them if you like them. I would say the best 
way to switch to an other voice when you are in a website and want to read in 
an other language is to use vo command arrows.
On Dec 22, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Mary Otten wrote:

> Hi folks,
> I just got my Mac Mini yesterday. Definitely going to be a learning
> curve in there. Has anybody tried the high quality voices from
> assistiveware and used them to read foreign language texts or web
> pages? I think I read somewhere that it is possible to have different
> voices speak different things, e.g. status messages and text could be
> two different voices. I didn't see how to do that in the VO utility.
> Saw a bunch of voices but no way to split up tasks so that, say one
> voice would read system and status messages, while the other would read
> text. And that, I imagine is what you'd want to do if you were reading
> a foreign language web page. So, any hints would be most welcome. 
> 
> Mary
> 
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