Re: [orca-list] NVDA seen from an Orca-user perspective

[Mario Lang <mlang delysid org>]

Jason White <jason jasonjgw net> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 12:44:21AM +0200, Mario Lang wrote:
> > This is something that would add to the ease of use of Orca as well.
> > If we would just use the language settings available to figure out
> > if such a voice can be used with the configured synthesis backend,
> > we'd make Orca more easy to use to people with first languages other
> > than english.
>
> For speech, surely this depends on the much discussed issue of which back-end
> to use: Gnome-speech, Speech Dispatcher, etc.

Ideally, a language autoadujstment feature would work with any backend
supported.  To be able to query the language of a voice is something
I'd expect from a good backend...

> However, in general, I agree this is a desirable feature. If the user's locale
> has been set, it should be easy to determine the default language. In fact,
> this must already be done to give the proper translations of Orca's messages;
> it just needs to propagate to the choice of spoken language

Exactly.  Currently, everyone with english not their first language
has to do this step manually.

> and, possibly, default braille table, if not overridden by the
> user's preferences.

Given the current architecture, the braille table prefered by the
user has already been set in BRLTTY configuration.  I haven't had
a use case for a different braille table in orca yet.
Note that braille tables are must less likely to be switch by a user
than synthesis language.  If you are working with multiple languages,
you normally stay with a single braille translation table..
However, its nearly impossible to switch langauges without having your synth
voice follow.

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