Ah Mary, I am glad you mentioned Arabic> In fact Arabic is one of the languages I need. The problem is that if I use the English voice It won’t try to spell out Arabic because it does not use the Latin alphabets> May be the Arabic voice would try to pronounce the English words in a broken accent.
That is why I use my iPhone very often. The auto switching in the iOS is excellent. Cheers, Cris From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 8:13 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: A number of questions from a Nubie Hi Chris, Oh, you know seminar if you're into Russian when you have the English voice or vice versa. The Russian boys tries to pronounce English rather badly as you might imagine. And I think, if I remember correctly that the English voice starts to spell out the Russian as in Cyrillic P surly glitter are at Cetera, but I haven't used in a long time, because I prefer to use my iOS device for that service. I don't actually run into situations where I have really intermixed text we're the same line might have words in both languages. I don't have an accessible dictionary, for instance. And since my Arabic is so awful, having not used it in a long long time, I have not had the chance to try Arabic on the Mac. I assume that it would do the same as the Russian. Mary Sent from my iPhone On May 23, 2016, at 5:05 PM, Cris Ali <filasti...@hotmail.com <mailto:filasti...@hotmail.com> > wrote: Thanks Mary, How do you handle situations when you have Russian and English words on the same page, or even in the same sentence? If you are using the English voice it may not alert you to the Russian and if you are using the Russian you may not know there are English words. I am surprised that apple made the Auto switching among languages available on iOS devices and not on their computers. Cheers, Cris From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 6:36 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: A number of questions from a Nubie Hi Chris, No, you don't get automatic language switching on the Mac. At least, it hasn't worked for me where it has worked for me on the iPhone between English and Russian. Open office is not accessible. With regard to the language switching, it's not too hard to switch languages, because there is a keystroke that let you move from one to another one. But it's not the same as the automatic switching that you can have on iOS. As for word processors, there is pages and there is Microsoft Word for Mac, which some people say works quite well. I have not used it, so I cannot comment.depending on how big of a Microsoft Word user you are, you may find that the Mac version isn't up to what you are used to. And then there is pages, which will have a learning curve, especially if you are into word with windows. There's also text at it, which is a lot simpler and has fewer features naturally. So it depends on your word processing needs. Mary Sent from my iPhone On May 23, 2016, at 2:37 PM, Cris Ali <filasti...@hotmail.com <mailto:filasti...@hotmail.com> > wrote: Hello folks, I think I decided to get the macbook pro 15.4 inch with retina display 2.5 mhz quad core Pentium i7. It comes with a 512 gb of SSD and 16 gb of ram. The description sounds attractive, and the weight is not that heavy. I have a number of questions however: First, does the voiceover support automatic language detection and switching? I am multi lingual and I like this feature on the iOS devices. If voice over does not support this feature, how do multi and bilingual users of OSX deal with this issue? Secondly, What is a good accessible word processor to use, preferably something that support .docs and .doc extensions. Is open office accessible? Finally, do you recommend any tutorials or documents to read to prepare myself for the time when I get my computer? Your help will be appreciated. Regards, Cris -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. 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