Blanch, [or should that be Blanche <grin>] I've heard Eloquence' French language and, even to a non-native language student, the French sounds not good! (I contrast that with how I find the Italian Eloquence pronunciation of Italian, not perfect but pretty good.) That's where the human pronunciation helps, to be sure. I enjoyed my first hour or two at the site today, and am at level 49! I use an Apollo 2 synthesizer with JAWS, which is british speech.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jewel Blanch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:18 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Query" Free rice Thanks Flor! I will try your suggestions. It will not be long before I say good bye to the dear old dinosaur: 98 and make the leap to XP Home. My donated grain count on free rice is 90000. Time permitting, I try to do 1000 grains a day. Until a while back, the best vocab level you could achieve, no matter how many words you got right was 50, but that level has been raised now, but so has the range of words and their difficulty and obscurity. My best level, to date, is 54, but one mistake and you slip back a level, and, it takes more than one correct word to regain it. I enjoy pitting my wits against the site. I spoke of jaws making a pretty good fist of pronunciation, with not many exceptions, but just wait until the site gives you the french word for an armchair! I should switch language to french and see what it makes of the pronunciation of fauteuil then! Jewel ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Flor Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:46 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Query" Free rice Jewel, Unfortunately, with that version of JAWS, you may not be able to get the pronunciation to play. (It is a 'clickable graphic'. In short, perhaps not a standard clickable link as recognized by earlier versions of JAWS. You could however try turning on all graphics using the insert+5 keys, that number 5, to attempt to enable it?. (There was also a graphics verbosity - insert-v, the down-arrow or the letter g.) With conntemporary versions of JAWS, when you hit left-mouse once on the 'clickable graphic pronounce', The word is spoken in a human voice. Nice site and nice game. ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jewel Blanch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:48 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Query" Free rice The freerice.com site has, from time to time, new features added to it, the latest of which is pronunciation. I imagine that the correct pronunciation of the, sometimes, very strange words that appear on the site is given in foenetics. The choices of words can be clicked on, but this does not seem to be so with the pronounce feature. Jaws just says: "graphics pronounce" . To give Jaws the credit it deserves, it, generally, makes a very good fist of getting the correct pronunciation, but sometimes, it does get a little confused, especially if the word is from a language other than standard english and I cannot blame it for that! Back to graphics pronounce" I tried finding it by turning on the jaws cursor, but as I am not very adept at using the jaws cursor, I could not find out how to pronounce the word. Any suggestions please! 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