Hi Brian, If you manage to have the problem solved, would you mind writing me off-list to share how you and Ben have achieved this? I may need Ancient Greek at some point as well.
Thanks and good luck Andrew > On 16 Jul 2015, at 15:27, Christopher-Mark Gilland <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Brian, > > Ben called last night and left you a voicemail, so hopefully you and him can > hook up. He's quite confident he can help you out. > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Lamanche" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 2:36 AM > Subject: Re: biblical greek on the mac > > > Hi Brian, > > On my mac, I use Greek Braille tables with my refreshable Braille display and > the table is in grade 1 Braille so I didn't have to learn much in order to > read. I have very little experience of the Greek grade 2 Braille as i have > no access to their Braille paper literature. On the mac side, you can choose > Greek Braille table in Voiceover utility under the Braille tab. Incidentally, > the Greek table on the mac also works fine for English so I don't have to > switch Braille tables all the time. I just have the table set to Greek and > it works for both English and Greek. > > Hope things are going to work out for you. > > Best wishes > > Andrew >> On 15 Jul 2015, at 20:35, Brian Howerton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> No problem Andrew. That definitely helps though. Right now I am digging in >> to a greek text in braille. I am very overwhelmed by the greek braille >> code. I wish there was a supplemental greek braille code manual that I >> could use while trying to learn Greek. Right now, I am struggling trying to >> understand how the greek braille code works. >> Brian >>> On Jul 15, 2015, at 3:25 PM, Andrew Lamanche <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Brian, >>> >>> I speak modern Greek and there's no problem with that because: >>> 1. AssistiveWare.com has a modern Greek voice Dimitris, which is very good, >>> 2. and Apple provides a modern Greek voice Melina and Nikos. Mac also has >>> a modern Greek keyboard layout as well as ancient Greek keyboard which you >>> can add to your keyboards. >>> >>> You can change both keyboards and voices on the fly. >>> >>> I don't think that ancient / biblical Greek is going to work with these >>> voices because the letters with the diacritic marks that are used are not >>> recognised by Voiceover nor by any other voices mentioned above. But do >>> check it out yourself. you can easily add Apple's Greek voices to the >>> selection of voices on the mac, activate the appropriate keyboard and >>> confirm this. I had no success with it when I got a piece of biblical text >>> from somebody. >>> >>> I'm sorry not to have better news for you. >>> >>> Andrew >>>> On 15 Jul 2015, at 20:11, Brian Howerton <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello all, >>>> I am trying to teach myself new testament greek. I was wondering if >>>> anyone has tested learning a biblical language on the mac with voiceover. >>>> Just was curious to see how that might work with voiceover as far as >>>> pronunciations and things like that. 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