Technically, this is not a big deal. Blindows screen reader, has had the
ability to switch languages, along with the switching of voices, for years
(just a curiosity: It even switches the programs menus).
Of course, there could be many different ways of solving this problem,
technically. Just thought I would throw in one idea, as a starting point.
What we want to see - or should I say, hear - is that the different characters
and keystrokes (like 'end of line', in English, switch to 'Ende der Linie',
when the german voice is selected). I get a feeling, that we would need to load
in all the dictionaries, including the graphic labels ('button' in English,
'knap' in Danish),for each language. The way I have seen this done, is that
each language has its own subdirectory - ie. gwmicro\English, gwmicro\German,
gwmicro\Sweedish.Could it be solved by having the voice routing script have a
box, where you defined, what language the actual voice is? I.e, Eoquence Reed
would be English, and load the dics from \English directory; Eloquence Max
would be set to German, loading its dics from \German; ScanSoft Ingrid would
get her dics from \Sweedish. If no language is defined for a voice, it would
use the dics in the language of your WE release, which would be found in the
%appdata%\gwmicro folder - that is, in no further subdirectory. Each user,
would have to define the language setting for his own choices of voices, as
there is quite a few voices available, out there; and I don't expect GW staff,
or the scripter, to have the full overview of all of these, and their
corresponding language.
Yes, the user will have to edit the dics for each language. That is, if not, GW
would simply make them downloadable from a spot on their webpage. There might
even be languages, in which you will find (at least) SAPI voices, buttwhich GW
staff doesn't speak - i.e Corean. That is why, I suggest, that users who do use
these languages, and who has the capability of editing the dic-tionaries, would
be uploading them, hence building a database for the different languages.
Well, just one idea, how this could have been solved quite easily. Spin a
little on it, and see, if not WE could be made quite easily multi-lingual. As
it is that internationally well-known a screen reader, I am sure, this is
something MANY a user hav been wanting, for years. With the scripting
capability, I think it is time, that WE becomes quite much more multi-lingual.
Hope this gives a push in a direction, that will lead us somewhere.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sjak Rijploeg
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: switch language in ECI Eloquence]
Doug,
I only wish that characters like )(@!%$#@<>:}{¿³¼¾ and so on, should be
spoken in the language of the synthesizer you use at that moment, and not in
the way as written in the char.dic for your own language. Perhaps therefor you
need more than one char.dic.
regards,
Sjak
----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Geoffray
To: Sjak Rijploeg
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: switch language in ECI Eloquence]
Sjak,
The problem is the text you are referring to is not in a dictionary but
built into Window-Eyes itself. Window-Eyes has been localized in many
languages but it currently can not switch languages on the fly. But then
again, if you switch synthesizer languages the application you are using and
the operating system you are using of course are still out of sync as well.
Regards,
Doug
Sjak Rijploeg wrote:
Hallo Doug,
Could it be also possible to switch dictionaries by switching
synthesizers? It should be nice to hear the inglish words of {*< and so on when
using an Inglis voice and the Dutch words when using a Dutch voice.
Regards,
Sjak
----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Geoffray
To: list info
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 3:25 AM
Subject: [Fwd: Re: switch language in ECI Eloquence]
Ralf,
No, you can not uninstall certain languages. But remember, you can use
the voice rotor script that Steve Clower wrote. This allows you to setup a
custom list of synths (from what you have available) and then rotor through
that list. So you could or example list English Eloquence and German Eloquence
and rotor between them. This gives you the ultimate flexibility. This does of
course require WE 7.0.
Regards,
Doug
Ralf Kefferpuetz wrote:
Hello GWMicro and listers,
is it possible to disable some languages in the ECI Eloquence, so
that I can only toggle between english and german, as in the Sapi version?
Kind regards,
Ralf
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