Since switching voices doesn’t fix the problem, is there a way for me to run the PDF through a multilingual OCR? Does such an OCR even exist? Would an OCR even do anything if the arabic words are already written in these jumbled characters and are not represented as an image? Best,
Ibraheem On Jan 21, 2014, at 1:44 PM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: > Hello Ibraheem, > > On the Mac, there is no automatic switching of languages, and in fact, on the > iPhone, it only happens in HTML where the appropriate language tags are set. > You just have to do it yourself. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 21 Jan 2014, at 19:40, Ibraheem Fakir <ibayri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear list, >> >> I’m unsure how many of yawl are familiar with arabic, but the solution may >> apply to any foreign language that uses non Latin alphabets. >> >> I have a PDF file with both english and what’s suppose to be arabic writing. >> VO reads the english fine, but it reads the arabic writing as bazaar >> combinations of english letters and symbols. The symbols are greek, and >> Chinese I think… Any who, its any assortment of symbols Alex can recognize. >> I had a sighted friend confirm that the writing is actually in arabic. I >> also have the arabic voice Tarik downloaded in the VO utility under speech. >> I was hoping that the arabic voice would take over and read the arabic >> portions of the PDF and Alex would read the english portions. You know, >> something like how the iPhone does with recognizable foreign languages. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> Thank you all, >> >> Ibraheem >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
