Historically, Kirk, you are correct. However, the trend is to identify language in documents. And, it's certainly possible to read any particular user's .i18n data, should they have such a file. So, there are certainly mechanisms for web documents and particular user logins. I have been working inside the W3C to argue that we need also to have clearly defined mechanisms for changing language on the fly within a document so that, for example, your French book can be en English mostly, but switch to French and back again, as it seeks to teach you French. May I note that the NISO/DAISY, next-generation ANSI Z39-86 supports this? Kirk Reiser writes: > Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> writes: > > > Chuck, you're reading me loud and clear! <grin> That's exactly what > > I mean. I see that Speech-Dispatcher claims to support switching > > among soft synths on the fly, even based on circumstance. For > > example, it supports responding to different languages by using a > > different soft synth. So, I expect that we should have a concept of > > how we facilitate switching from Flite, to DEC Talk software speech, > > and then to Cepstral, and then back again to Flite. And, it needs to > > be as easy as using Speaks With--which I thank you for, by the way. > > That is an unintentional mistake in the speech dispatcher > documentation. It would be very difficult to be able to reliably > determine in context what language a particular word or phrase was > part of. > > The speech dispatcher software does support switching of synths on the > fly but it is a very recent addition brought on by my questioning this > exact topic of documentation. > > I do not have support for switching on the fly yet in speakup or > speechd-up but will hopefully in the near future now that it can be > done in speech dispatcher. > > Kirk > > -- > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
