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

[Øyvind Lode <oyvind lode lyse net>]

Yep.
I have the exact same issue with my Windows screen reader and I disable it
completely.
I use Norwegian (my native language) and English, but the auto detection of
languages don't work reliably, so I disable it.

When I need to switch to Norwegian speech for instance, I just press a key
combination to bring up a menu of available speech/languages, press "n" to
quickly move to Norwegian and press Enter.

-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On
Behalf Of Halim Sahin
Sent: 8. februar 2010 13:31
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca: how to change voice dynamically

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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