I've always found the automatic language detection to never work satisfactorily. Not necessarily due to Jaws, but rather the fact that the language formatting from webpage to webpage and document to document is so inconsistent that Jaws changing languages becomes a major hit or miss proposition. TO the point where I've for many versions of Jaws now, simply turn that feature off all together. Jaws has gotten overall better with multiple language stuff, but still even with the latest "innovations" and voice profile management, switching between languages is not terribly fluid. I've always felt that some sort of enhanced combination of the dictionary manager and flexible web type of feature where one could designate certain domains or email addresses or documents to be spoken with a particular voice profile or language would be best. Being able to make a rule where domains ending in .es, .mx, .ar and so on or email addresses where you know the language is going to be one other than English be it from a particular address or a mailing list would be automatically spoken in Spanish for example and with the desired rate of speech and other parameters would be ideal. Even now, if I want to visit a site with a Spanish language domain or PDF or Word document, I still have to invoke keystrokes to go between one language to the next. Being able to associate any of the examples above to another voice profile and eliminating the toggle keystrokes would streamline the process and make the overall user experience a lot more efficient. It only seems intuitive that if you know absolutely that a site you're going to visit or an email address you're going to write to or receive or document you're going to work in will be in another language that Jaws will revert to speaking in that corresponding voice without the need of keystrokes to switch back and forth. I've written to FS's suggestion email about this from time to time.
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Pablo Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2015 11:07 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws16 Another way to change languages on the fly? I am using the same keystroke to switch between english/spanish, for example, I press Insert + window Key + 1 and if jaws is speacking in English then switch to Spanish, and if jaws is speacking in Spanish, then jaws switch to English. How I do that? Well, you press insert + 0 on the number row, the screipt manager will open. Press control + shift + D, then you will open the default.jss file, it is the default script of jaws, it works every where, not just on a specific app. Then go to the end of the default.jss file pressing control end key, like on what ever text editor. Now if you want to take 2 keystrokes to switch between English to Spanish and a second to switch between Spanish to English then you will need to press more keystrokes, and modify the script. This script is to switch between the current language to another language, and vice bersa. Now if you rather to use just one keystroke to switch between both languages, do the following. Press alt + s, the script menu is open, select new script. A dialog is going to say something like ; Script name, type the name of that script, not spaces, not special characters, something like EnglishSpanish, or something that is going to identify what the script does, then press tab and is going to ask you if the new script can be attach to a key, select this check box, now press tab until assign to, here you are going to press the keyboard command that you want to use, you need to be careful that you will not use a keyboard command that is use already by jaws, jaws will let you know if it is already used, but you should not use a keyboard command used by windows or another program. Then press tab on and press space bar on ok button. Now you will be again on the script editor, copy and paste the script that I gave you, remember that you are going to paste the code between the line that say the name of your script, for example; Script EnglishSpanish Here you are going to paste the code EndScript After you paste the code, press control s, then it is all, you can close the script manager, and it is all. Now if you want to use 2 different keystrokes, you need to repeat these steps, using different keystrokes for English and different for spanish. On the code instead the code that I sent you, you should type something like; In the switching to spanish; SetSynthLanguage(Spanish ("Mexico)") And on the script to switching to English this SetSynthLanguage("English (United States)" I don't recommend create 2 different scripts to switch between 2 different languages, but it is up to you. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Gerardo Corripio Sent: Saturday, May 9, 2015 8:15 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws16 Another way to change languages on the fly? OK and after I've copied the text into the script file? how would I assign the keyboard shortcut of Windows+Control+1 for Spanishn and Windows+Control+2 for English? El 08/05/2015 07:13 p.m., Pablo escribió: > Hi Gerardo. > > It is a script that I use to switch the languages very easy. You can copy > and paste it in your default.jss. > Var > String Actual, > String Spanish, > String English, > String Message > Let Actual=GetActiveSynthLanguage() > Let Spanish= "Spanish (Mexico)" > Let English = "English (United States)" > if Actual==English then > Let Actual = Spanish > let message="Español latino americano" > ElIf Actual== Spanish then > Let Actual=English > let message="American English" > EndIf > SetSynthLanguage(actual) > Say(actual,0) > -----Original Message----- > From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On > Behalf Of Gerardo Corripio > Sent: Friday, May 8, 2015 11:56 AM > To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > Subject: [JAWS-Users] Jaws16 Another way to change languages on the fly? > > HI guys > I'm wondering if somehow a script could be developped, as to assign > Windows+Control+1 for Mexican Spanish, and Windows+Control+2 for > American English? Yes the route of Windows+Control+l and depending of if > I want to change to english (Double i) or Spanish (Double ee) is OK, but > I'd like to imagine that Jaws is powerful enough to allow such script to > be developped? > -- Enviado desde mi lap Gerardo J Corripio Flores Psicólogo, Terapéuta Reiki Saludos desde Tampico, Tamaulipas México For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
