Jaws and International Phonetic Alphabet
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Leo
Hello everyone, Is it possible to jaws to read IPA (international Phonetic Alphabet) symbols? If this is possible, what settings do I need to modify?
This is useful for people learning foreign languages and I’ve been puzzled for long time now about how to make it work using a screen reader, so thanks for any further information.
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On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 01:08 PM, Lev wrote:
Is it possible to jaws to read IPA (international Phonetic Alphabet) symbols?This is a serious question: Read them how? or Read them as what? Most IPA symbols do not, to my knowledge, have single-syllable names such as most letters do. I can't conceive of what would be used for the IPA character to name for single character by character reading. If you start getting into the diacritics it gets even messier. -- Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 If you remove all the homosexuals and homosexual influences from what is generally regarded as American culture, you are pretty much left with Let's Make a Deal. ~ Fran Lebowitz
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What exactly is meant by IPA? Does it refer to Jaws saying "bravo" for b?
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Brian Vogel
Sent: Friday, November 2, 2018 4:18 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Jaws and International Phonetic Alphabet
On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 01:08 PM, Lev wrote:
This is a serious question: Read them how? or Read them as what? Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 If you remove all the homosexuals and homosexual influences from what is generally regarded as American culture, you are pretty much left with Let's Make a Deal. ~ Fran Lebowitz
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Nermin
Hi Sieghard, no, that would be the military alphabet or, as you’d rather
say in German, “Postalphabet”. IPA is the international phonetic alphabet, which
uses symbols to represent the sounds used in different languages. Vowels,
different phoneme combinations, etc., are represented visually for someone to be
able to pronounce a word or sentence properly (Lautschrift). As for the original question, here is a page trying to make
JaWS cope with IPA, but I don’t know if it’s being
maintained. And another for Braille and IPA: Regards, Nermin
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Nermin,
There's nothing "new" nor that would be needing to be maintained at the Rice dot edu page and the instructions are quite thorough and specific. Since it was written for JAWS 17, it's quite recent at that. If this is what you're looking for then try those instructions. The author also mentions having created a JBT file that's a companion to the text file for the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols with Braile and to write him at the address he provides if you'd like that as well. -- Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 If you remove all the homosexuals and homosexual influences from what is generally regarded as American culture, you are pretty much left with Let's Make a Deal. ~ Fran Lebowitz
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Thanks, Nermin, now I learned something, "Postalphabet", I didn't know that one. I am german and speak it fluently, but I left there 29 years ago at the age of 22 so especially technology terms are sometimes more familiar to me in English than in German.
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Nermin via Groups.Io
Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2018 12:38 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Jaws and International Phonetic Alphabet
Hi Sieghard,
no, that would be the military alphabet or, as you’d rather say in German, “Postalphabet”. IPA is the international phonetic alphabet, which uses symbols to represent the sounds used in different languages. Vowels, different phoneme combinations, etc., are represented visually for someone to be able to pronounce a word or sentence properly (Lautschrift).
As for the original question, here is a page trying to make JaWS cope with IPA, but I don’t know if it’s being maintained. And another for Braille and IPA:
Regards, Nermin
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Leo
Thank you Nermin, I'll see what I can find...
Visit my blog: https://blindbirdchronicles.wordpress.com Do me a favor and inspire me... Literophilus El 03/11/2018 a las 9:20, Sieghard
Weitzel escribió:
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Leo
The instructions given in the web page that Norman posted to have Jaws coping with IPA symbols are spot-on. I’m an EFL student, and I stumbled upon this page a couple of years ago, which helped me a lot. By the way, if you happen to have the hexa code for any of the symbols used in broad and narrow phonetic transcriptions, You can easily add them to the .sbl file as instructed in this web page.
Best, Leo Bado.
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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2018 9:21 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Jaws and International Phonetic Alphabet
Thanks, Nermin, now I learned something, "Postalphabet", I didn't know that one. I am german and speak it fluently, but I left there 29 years ago at the age of 22 so especially technology terms are sometimes more familiar to me in English than in German.
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Nermin via Groups.Io
Hi Sieghard,
no, that would be the military alphabet or, as you’d rather say in German, “Postalphabet”. IPA is the international phonetic alphabet, which uses symbols to represent the sounds used in different languages. Vowels, different phoneme combinations, etc., are represented visually for someone to be able to pronounce a word or sentence properly (Lautschrift).
As for the original question, here is a page trying to make JaWS cope with IPA, but I don’t know if it’s being maintained. And another for Braille and IPA:
Regards, Nermin
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