Re: [orca-list] Orca: how to change voice dynamically

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

I agree.
What I would suggest is that some key combination be employed by which the 
user can temporarily change the language to a pre-selected one or two 
others.
In the console mode I have that implemented so that I can change from 
English which I use mostly, to Afrikaans which I use sometimes by pressing 
alt-up-arrow.
  This has 
the advantage that, when one hears that you are now getting Afrikaans read 
to you using the English synthesizer, one can quickly change to Afrikaans 
and back again to English when the Afrikaans passage is past.
Regards, Willem

On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Halim Sahin wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I want to write down some notes about the dynamic language changing
> stuff.
>
> 1. Changing the language without an userinteraction is one of the
> features which are turned of in my windows screenreader because it 
> is not working reliable for websites.
> Some times I am getting english synthesis with german text etc.
> Sure this is a problem of those websites but there are many of such 
> broken sites in the web.
>
> I can't think of an usefull usecase for such a feature for other
> appsbecause it needs heavy change in orca and it's use shouldn't bring
> slowdowns or other unwanted effect to other users who don't need such a
> feature.
>
> 2. Doing the language stuff for normal desktop applications:
> Detecting the used language would be the first step to  implementing this
> feature.
> This can be difficult:
> e. G. When I don't use german umlauts in my application, the used
> characters are the same as for other languages like english.
> So in this case the language detection can fail.
> Is there a way to detect the used Lang in such cases?
>
> 3. Detecting the language could be done using some language dependant
> dictionaries but this would slow down the workflow in orca.
>
> 4. Another problem is that orca translates e. G. Interpunction
> characters to the 
> selected systemlanguage (locale based).
> changing only the synthesizer wouldn't be enough!
> When implementing the dynamic peechanguage  in orca the locale based
> translation needs to be
> changed.
> Orca must handle the language stuff this way that a aplication can
> switch the used orca-language (completely).
>
> Please try to make such changes configurable!!!
> Regards
> halim
>
>
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