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

["Milton" <milton tomaatnet nl>]

WOW, Great! Will it also be in Orca 3,4,2?
Milton
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joanmarie Diggs" <jdiggs igalia com>
To: "Fernando Botelho" <fernando botelho f123 org>
Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Feature request: Orca should have a hotkey to 
change speech language.


> Hey Fernando.
>
> On 12/29/2012 08:54 AM, Fernando Botelho wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Exactly. Not that my ability to understand oral Spanish is vastly
> inferior to my ability to understand oral English. (She says trying to
> look convincing, and suspecting she is failing to do so.) <grins> In my
> defense, all of my Spanish colleagues are proficient in English.
>
> Anyhoo.... Jokes aside, this approach also means you can switch braille
> tables. Contracted literary English braille just doesn't make sense for
> non-English text. It also means that you could, as some users have asked
> for, create a "Say All" profile with a more human-sounding voice so
> reading long documents is less grating on the ears.
>
> And having slept on the problem of the messages and module reloading, I
> think I have a simple enough idea that will solve the issue so
> Orca-specific messages (profile is foo, capitalization style is bar,
> punctuation level is baz, etc.) will be spoken and brailled in the
> correct language when one uses this new feature to switch amongst 
> profiles.
>
> Good times ahead. <smile>
>
> Take care.
> --joanie
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