Re: [orca-list] Feature request: Orca should have a hotkey to change speech language.

[Fernando Botelho <fernando botelho f123 org>]

This is fantastic! Changing languages by changing profiles has the added 
benefit that if you are learning a new language, the profile for that 
language can speak at a slower rate, etc.

Best wishes,

Fernando


On 12/28/2012 09:15 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> On 12/28/2012 05:44 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> > I would also welcome a feature that would let me change languages
> > in a very few key strokes.  I write in English and Spanish mostly though
> > I've been known to use other languages form time to time.
>
> A few hours ago I committed a change that gets us half way there. It
> adds a new, unbound command to cycle amongst profiles. So I have my
> default profile which is English, and my "Spanish" profile, and now I
> can quickly cycle between them. As a result, if I were sent an email in
> Spanish, I could read it with the Spanish synthesizer. Then toggle back
> to English to read the next email. That's the good news, and hopefully
> addresses the most needed use case for this feature request.
>
> The tricky thing, which I've not yet implemented, is getting Orca to
> start presenting messages in the new language. That's easy enough to do
> for, say, character names so that when I arrow to a period in the
> aforementioned email, Orca says "punto" instead of dot. But if I want
> Orca to tell me it switched to the Spanish profile in Spanish rather
> than saying English words with the Spanish synth, I currently have to
> reload the default script, and that currently will have a side effect of
> commands showing up in the Preferences dialog in one language, and the
> rest of the GUI remaining in the default language but spoken in the
> other language. Not to mention dogs and cats living together, and
> similar untoward things.
>
> As a result, I want to ponder what strings need to be in the new locale,
> what strings need to remain in the original locale, etc., etc. After I
> do that, I'll make the necessary changes. If the changes are huge, then
> I'll add a characters names hack in the meantime. But I've not done that
> yet.
>
> Stay tuned!
> --joanie
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