Thanks Mr Paul Gallegos for your reply/posting of Aug 31. However, the issue I raised seems not a simple "new user" issue. Rather, it is more like an multi-lingual support issue. Here are some further details.
1. When using English synthesizers, Window-Eyes works perfectly, with proper pauses on English commas and periods. 2. I tried to stay as close as WE factory settings. So far I have only adjusted a few Verbosity options in Global setting. I did not make any application-specific settings. 3. The test files are plain text files in English and Chinese, respectively. 4. The test applications are WordPad, IE and FireFox, respectively. 5. The test results are repeatable. When using English synthesizer to read plain English file, it pauses properly on English commas/periods. When using Chinese synthesizers (e.g., MS-Lili) to read plain Chinese text, Window-Eyes does not pause on Chinese commas/periods. 6. Note that I opened English and Chinese files using the same applications (WordPad, IE, FireFox). If my punctuation settings (Verbosity) are incorrect, it should demonstrate the same problem for both English and Chinese. (Summary: Same application, same Verbosity setting, but WE behave Differently for different languages.) 7. Apparently the same Verbosity setting functions differently between English synthesizers and Chinese synthesizers. Chinese punctuation (comma, period) are typically in multi-byte Unicode or GB-2312 encoding. WE Verbosity dialog does not provide a way to configure a pause for multi-byte punctuation. (English ASCII is a 1-byte encoding.) 8. I have listened to the full set of WE tutorials (MP3) and have Read Through WE Manual Sections 5, 6, 7, 16 19 and Appendix B and C. But I Still cannot find a solution. BTW, Window-Eyes is the best screen reader I have ever used. As pausing on commas/periods is a basic function for reading a long article, I would suggest WE to support this function for Asian languages too. Randy ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Randy Liu <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:07 PM Subject: Punctuation Setting for Chinese Synthesizer (MS-Lily)? To: [email protected] Microsoft has a very good Chinese synthesizer for Vista Ultimate users. With the default settings of many TTS software (such as 2nd Speech Center, Natural Reader, JAWS, etc.), MS-Lily speaks perfectly. But with Window-Eyes 7.0 default setting, MS-Lily ignores all punctuations. The punctuations in Chinese language are nearly identical with those in English (except that the former is encoded in GB-2312 while the latter is in ASCII encoding). When reading a long article (Read-to-End), we expect MS-Lily to have a brief pause on comma and a longer pause on period and End-of-Paragraph. With Window-Eyes 7.0 default setting, MS-Lily reads a whole paragraph (and a whole article) as a continuous stream of words, with no pause at all on any punctuations (comma, period). I tried to adjust the Punctuation Options, but none of the settings affects MS-Lily. Does anyone know how to make a SAPI-5 Chinese synthesizer to pause on punctuations? Thanks in advance. Randy If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
