Re: [orca-list] voice profiles?

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hey Peter.

> 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.

I was pretty sure it was already being exposed, else I would have an
open issue at openoffice.org for it. :-) But for the sake of
thoroughness, I just took a look. Language is indeed exposed to us via
OOo Writer as a text attribute.

Take care.
--joanie