Category: Geeks r Us
Have jaws 10.0 demo version on my computer and for some reason the software changes to a british accent on certain web sites. Why does it do that? It is very annoying. Can I turn that feature off? Like I say, I havge a demo version running. Got it off the fredom scientific web site.
It's probably languge detection, use Jaws key and v to get into verbosity menu, then press l until you find language detection, hit space to turn it off.
You can also do this perminantly through config manager of course.
Cheers
-B
Yeah, just what B said. It's because some sites are setting the lang attribute of the HTML tag to "en-uk" or possibly using <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en-uk"/> or something like that. You can turn that off from Adjust JAWS Options (JawsKey+V).
Yeah, one time I logged onto a site, and it started speaking French. Very charming. Lol.
thanks for the advice. I wonder why anybody would even use that feature.
Hmm, you don't know why French Jaws users want their French web pages read in their own language? Have you tried reading a foreign language with English Jaws or vice versa? It can be done, although it's not easy but this is a really cool feature. Not every Jaws user is English speaking, nor is every web page intended for English speaking audiances, believe it or not.
It's also handy for us who speak more than one language. With me it's German and English, and learning others. So going to web pages to practice these languages is useful if not necessary. Shame you can't install other languages into JAWS though, like for the Asian languages. I'd love to practice Arabic properly like that.
They should make that a feature--similar to language packs for Windows. Why haven't they done that already?
omg I knoooow! I wish they had Vietnamese jaws. It's so hard reading it with the regular jaws. Is it even available? lol I'm going to google it. haha I know they have Vietnamese braille which I can read but don't know about how a person from Vietnam accesses their computer.
um, if you people are using real speak solo direct with jaws, Japanese is supported, and so is korean, and it works for webpages. so that's nice and that. who US to UK thing on webpages happens because of the html thing that someone mensioned a few posts back.
You can get some sapi5 voices for Vietnamese from www.vnspeech.com. I don't know how well they work, because I don't speak Vietnamese, only Chinese, Spanish, English, and hopefully learning German. On that note, have you ever gone to a series of websites that JAWS thinks is Japanese, turn off language detection, and have it turn back on in a second?
I've never been to a website where there was a foreign language, but I have come across a few with the British accent. Thanks to those of you who told how to turn that off.
It's certainly an interesting feature but can cause surprise or be annoying at times. I know that I turned it off when I used to use JFW. Now, I use NVDA with the synth always set to Greek. The thing is that when it speaks English, except for the numbers, which it says in Greek, it pronounces everything correctly. So I really get the best of both worlds.
Actually, now that I think of it, ESpeak does sometimes switch languages but I think it's a bug here. It only seems to do it on facebook and it doesn't really seem to switch to a particular language but it does cut things off and act funny. This happens when I tab through greek text or eve Greek and English names on the site... Very strange, because I never know when it will happen. The only way to stop it is to go into preferences, voices and then switch back to Greek. I'd love to stop it from happening for good.
personally I use the british jaws because I dislike american accents. It's more of a state of mind for me. I'm not an american, my history isn't american, it's well firmly established in britain and I don't care if americans made it, I want it to sound british.
and thanks for telling me how I can stop it switching back to american.
Yeah. I always used to put JFW on British too. I'm not that fond of the American accent either and it just sounds strange with Eloquence.
I'm the opposite, I can't stand the Eloquence British accent. I don't know why, but I just have a hard time understanding it. My boyfriend uses it, and I find I have to slow it down way more than I would with the American accent.