Hi all, I have been using orca since the last September. It's a nice screen reader. However, I would like to manage more acurately the voices and the language. About these questions, I have the following doubts: 1. I used Espeak with NVDA. I am used to choose variant voices. Orca uses as a default voice one called by NVDA as John. It doesn't seem to be the best voice. it sounds for me a little bit sharp. In NVDA, there are variant voices with different settings for bass and high frequences and for several aspects for the voice. The user can't change all the settings directly. In the NVDA interface, only the name of a pre-configured voice can be chosen. In spite of this, the user can open a folder where a text file of voice settings are placed. I attached to this message an example of NVDA voice settings. Observe that users can create their own variant voices with their preferences. Orca uses Espeak as voice synthesis, so I presume the same can be done for orca. In orca settings, I can only choose my language, the portuguese, but perhaps I could also change via setting files the behaviour of the default voice. Can it be done? 2. I often read texts in portuguese, english, spanish and italian. Therefore, I need to change the active voice for the language appropriated for the moment. Navigating in Internet, this feature would be more desirable yet. However, among the screen readers I know, Orca has the more burocratic way to access the language changing. If you want to read a short text, it's better to try to understand the text written in other language with the active voice language, in my case, the portuguese. The number of keys to be pressed until reaching the correct local to enable the change is very large. The language menu can be kept at the place it is now. Users can change their the default language. But a key to change quickly and perhaps, temporarily is required. If I could change the language with a unique keystroke, well, it would be perfect! The absence of a quick language changing is really unconfortable. Regards, -- Luciano de Souza
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