Re: VO Not REcognizing Arabic

2014-01-21 Thread Ibraheem Fakir
Since switching voices doesn’t fix the problem, is there a way for me to run the PDF through a multilingual OCR? Does such an OCR even exist? Would an OCR even do anything if the arabic words are already written in these jumbled characters and are not represented as an image? Best, Ibraheem O

Re: VO Not REcognizing Arabic

2014-01-21 Thread Ibraheem Fakir
Hey, I just tried setting Tarik to my default voice. Tariq can’t read the english, and he reads what’s suppose to be the Arabic the same way Alex did, except with a thick Arabic accent LOL. No fix. Could there be an issue in the composition of the PDF? Why would it appear visually as clear Arabi

Re: VO Not REcognizing Arabic

2014-01-21 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Ibraheem, On the Mac, there is no automatic switching of languages, and in fact, on the iPhone, it only happens in HTML where the appropriate language tags are set. You just have to do it yourself. Cheers, Anne On 21 Jan 2014, at 19:40, Ibraheem Fakir wrote: > Dear list, > > I’m uns

Re: VO Not REcognizing Arabic

2014-01-21 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I'm pretty sure you are going to have to switch to the Arabic voice to get the Arabic but I could be wrong. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears!

VO Not REcognizing Arabic

2014-01-21 Thread Ibraheem Fakir
Dear list, I’m unsure how many of yawl are familiar with arabic, but the solution may apply to any foreign language that uses non Latin alphabets. I have a PDF file with both english and what’s suppose to be arabic writing. VO reads the english fine, but it reads the arabic writing as bazaar c