Re: Question about Languages on the Mac Book Air

2020-02-08 Thread 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries
Hello Rhanda, If your macbook air has got Catalina installed, Voiceover has implemented automatic language switching so theoretically it ought to switch to the language in which a portion of text is written. It doesn’t always do so in reality. In voiceover utility which you get to by pressing

Question about Languages on the Mac Book Air

2020-02-07 Thread Rhanda Hasley
Hi everyone, Recently I bought a 2019 Mac Book Air and am learning how to use it with Voiceover. I was wondering about the best ways to ad or switch languages. Also, does anybody know if Voiceover, either on the Mac Book Air or iPhone, will read Esperanto? Thanks much for your assistance,

Re: using multiple languages on the mac

2014-09-27 Thread Phil Halton
Thanks Mary, time to get a MacBook air maybe. Thanks and good luck at guide dog school. Sent from my IPhone > On Sep 27, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Mary Otten wrote: > > Download one of the available Spanish voices for VO onyour Mac. Once you > have that, you should be able to switch between your pr

Re: using multiple languages on the mac

2014-09-27 Thread Colin Matthews
Hi! OK when you've got the language you should find it with VO+command+arrows, left and right to move through options and up or down to switch and if you leave the rota on that option switching should be quite quick! Another option I saw in an old post is to set up an activity to have everything

Re: using multiple languages on the mac

2014-09-27 Thread Mary Otten
Download one of the available Spanish voices for VO onyour Mac. Once you have that, you should be able to switch between your preferred English voice and your preferred Spanish voice by using the VOhot keys for that, which I don't remember right now. I've been away from my Mac for a couple of w

using multiple languages on the mac

2014-09-27 Thread Phil Halton
I'm in the process of learning Spanish and would like to be able to flip between english and spanish on the mac in a way similar to that on IOS. On the iPhone, if reading a spanish text, I can rotar select spanish as the language and hear the document or text in actual spanish as opposed to gri

Re: languages on the mac

2011-03-08 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Hi there! Voice over works fine with the Greek language as long as you are using the Infovox language package. Regards. Nektarios. On Mar 4, 2011, at 10:59 PM, richard watson wrote: > Good afternoon list, > I am considering a mac and had a off-the-wall question. > how does voice over handle s

Re: languages on the mac

2011-03-07 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
In facebook it just blurped about a style change. I wonder if I put punctuation to all if that would change. JOn Jonathan C. Cohn jonc...@cox.net On Mar 7, 2011, at 10:42 AM, richard watson wrote: > just curious, > what happened when you left vo speak the entire hebrew word? > > > On 3/7/

Re: languages on the mac

2011-03-07 Thread Massimo
In data Lunedě 7 Marzo 2011 16.42.26, richard watson ha scritto: what happened when you left vo speak the entire hebrew word? It say nothing. On 3/7/11, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: Well, out of the box Snow Leopard will tell you the name of the character if you navigate it using the single ch

Re: languages on the mac

2011-03-07 Thread richard watson
just curious, what happened when you left vo speak the entire hebrew word? On 3/7/11, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > Well, out of the box Snow Leopard will tell you the name of the character if > you navigate it using the single character move voice over cursor. I have > tried this primarily with Cy

Re: languages on the mac

2011-03-07 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Well, out of the box Snow Leopard will tell you the name of the character if you navigate it using the single character move voice over cursor. I have tried this primarily with Cyrillic and Hebrew characters. Jonathan C. Cohn jonc...@cox.net On Mar 4, 2011, at 3:59 PM, richard watson wrote:

Re: languages on the mac

2011-03-07 Thread richard watson
This is great! just another thing off my list before I purchase a mac. I'm currently a windows and jaws user and saw the mac and am rather impressed. thanks rick On 3/4/11, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Richard, > > You can get voices for all kinds of languages from AssistiveWare, and their > is

Re: languages on the mac

2011-03-04 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Richard, You can get voices for all kinds of languages from AssistiveWare, and their is a multi-lingual Braille package which includes Greek, Arabic, Russian, Hebrew and Icelandic, that you can download from: Cheers, Anne On 4 Mar 2011, at 21:59, richard watson wrote: > Good afternoo

Re: languages on the mac

2011-03-04 Thread Mary Otten
The Mac comes with voice over speaking U.S. English. There are several other languages available at extra cost through a 3rd party vendor, infovox. But I don't recall if they have Greek or not. The next iteration of the Mac os, due out this summer, is suppose to have several high quality voices

languages on the mac

2011-03-04 Thread richard watson
Good afternoon list, I am considering a mac and had a off-the-wall question. how does voice over handle such things as greek fonts? thanks rick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries