Yes, this is true, but more often than not, it's not the case. Jaws will just as easily start speaking in British English if you're an American English speaker or for Spanish speakers the synthesizer will go to the Castilian instead of Latin American or vice versa and so on. Sometimes, the synthesizer will speak the text in a totally different destination language instead of the source language. I know it's not necessarily a problem with Jaws, but more the document or webpage or whatever. Not to mention, when you're multi-lingual and unless you're just a hard core polyglot with super-duper listening skills switching on the fly and having the alternative language spoken at the same speech rate as the default language, it can be quite jarring. Especially if you're not necessarily prepared for it.
This is why in part I suggested to FS a further enhancement of voice and language profiles. If someone's visiting one of the Spanish language Google search engines .ar, .es, .mx or even ending in .de if you're a german speaker then why not have the ability to associate that URL or country's domain with a previously created voice profile with the corresponding language to assure a smoother user experience. Same goes for email addresses, file names, rss feeds and so on. Where you know the language you're going to use is not the default one. This would save the step of having to use the control+insert+s to switch back and forth and avoid the hit or miss on the language detection working because someone used God knows what keyboard layout to type the text you're trying to read. Anyway... Language detection is an option, but it's way too flakey to really be relied on. Switching back and forth with self-created voice profiles in my opinion at least offers greater control even though there are limitations in certain scenarios as you point out. ----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Soronel Haetir Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 6:03 PM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Subject: Re: Switching languages on the fly using JAWS. The thing about the language detection is that when it works you can work on a single document that is written in more than one language and get appropriate synthesizers for each language. Voice profiles are not especially helpful for that kind of thing. On 4/16/14, Cristóbal <[email protected]> wrote: > The language detection feature is indeed there, but it's more of a > hassle than anything. It's not always consistent. With the > self-created voice profiles, you're offered a more customizable > listenning experience. Speech rate, synthsizer, etc. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cy > Selfridge > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 10:53 AM > To: 'The Jaws for Windows support list.' > Subject: RE: Switching languages on the fly using JAWS. > > Hi Mike, > It does seem to me that JAWS either has or used to have a language > detection feature. > I have never used it as I do real good to handle English. (LOLLOLLOL) > Cy > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jfw > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Michael Mote > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 11:29 AM > To: 'The Jaws for Windows support list.' > Subject: Switching languages on the fly using JAWS. > > Hi folks! Is there a way to switch languages on the fly using JAWS? > I am working with a couple of clients who are fluent in both English > and Spanish, and want to be able to use both at different times doing > their jobs. > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was > scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/ > 201404 > 16/d007770d/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > -- Soronel Haetir [email protected] _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
