Re: [orca-list] orca and multilingual working environment

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

Good day,
There is a way, granted not a very good one, but it works for me.
In short:
Use speech-dispatcher as your middle ware.
Write a script to change the default sd language/voice.
I do not actually change the language, just the default underliing voice, 
in my case espeak's default voice.
Write another script for the other language and one that will jump to the 
other one when executed.
When using sysv as your startup system, there is a line in inittab linked 
to system request.
This is a key combination that should be available everywhere.  Note in 
ubuntu, by default sysv is no longer used and this key is not in the 
keymap.
Anyway, using an entry in inittab, the sysrequest key is linked to a 
script, in my case, change_voice, which is run each time the sys-request 
key is pressed.
I hav'nt done a lot of testing to see if the change can be made while in 
gnome, but it does stay if changed using this key from the console and 
then going into orca.
HTH, Willem


On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Damian Przyby?a wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My question is: Isx tere a wya to set orca so that I could have one document
> spoken in say English while the other opend in second window would ber
> spoken in other language - say Polish to complete the example. This would be
> very usefull when you work on translations. Or, if it is to complicated, may
> be someone knows the way to have a shortcut for quick changing languages -
> rotate between two or three languages you work with on every day bases.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Damian

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