Re: [orca-list] voice profiles?

[Peter Korn <peter korn oracle com>]

Jacob, Joanie,

Regarding language switching, OpenOffice.org Writer has the ability to 
encode text in different languages.  We use this in the odt2daisy plugin 
to create DAISY books that use the appropriate TTS engine for the 
different passages.  I don't know whether the language information is 
exposed via AT-SPI yet.  But this would be a nice way to have language 
switching automatically done for users who have to work with documents 
in multiple languages.  HTML / Firefox should likewise support this 
(which is to say, you can encode it in HTML but I don't know if Firefox 
exposes it in any way).


Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Principal
Oracle

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> Hi all
> The talk about the say all voice got me thinking of another feature I
> would really like to see: voice profiles like in jaws 10 and later. This
> would be nice for reading content in other languages, you could assign a
> hotkey to switch profiles and could have your parameter set up for each
> language you use. It wouldn't just store the tts engine and voice, but
> the rate, pitch, and volume associated with it and probably for all
> three (maybe four if the say all voice is implemented) voice types if
> their parameters are different from the default voice. This really would
> make it easier to deal with reading multiple languages.
>
> Thoughts?
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