Re: [orca-list] auto language switching in orca

[Fernando Botelho <Fernando Botelho F123 org>]

Dear Joanie, I second Janina's request. A different voice rate depending 
on language would be ideal.


Thanks,


Fernando



On 01/10/2017 04:52 PM, Janina Sajka via orca-list wrote:
> Joanie:
>
> Glad to hear you are working on language switching, and I promise to be
> patient! <grin>
>
> However, I'd like to introduce a feature request based on my experience
> of using auto language switching on Android.
>
> I think I won't be alone in wanting independent speech rate settings for
> each language. I suspect most of us who have familiarity with more than
> one language would agree that we're less facile in some than in others.
> So, having the same speech rate as would be set for our native language
> would likely not be as successful as the opportunity to specify
> different speech rates for different languages.
>
> I guess this is another version of the foreign traveler's frequent
> lament, "Once again, more slowly, please."
>
> Janina
>
> Joanmarie Diggs writes:
> > Hi Amir.
> >
> > Not quite yet. I'm working on that as part of a bigger feature to
> > (optionally) present contextual and formatting information.
> >
> > --joanie
> >
> > On 01/10/2017 01:32 AM, Amir-Trend Plus wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > since orca uses espeak a multilingual synthesizer, does orca support
> > > automatically language switching on the web as well as on other
> > > applications? thanks
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