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Rahul Bajaj
 

Hi All,

I use JAWS 2022, word 16. JAWS at random speaks some words in Spanish rather than English. How can I stop this from happening?

Rahul

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Rahul Bajaj
Attorney, Ira Law
Senior Associate Fellow, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy
Rhodes Scholar (India and Linacre 2018), University of Oxford
Co-Founder, Mission Accessibility
Special Correspondent on the rights of persons with disabilities, Oxford Human Rights Hub
Coordinator of the working group on accessibility, e-Committee, Supreme Court of India




Mike B.
 


While in Word you could try turning off, Language Detect Change, in Jaws quick settings, Insert + V.  Setting explained below.
 
This option controls whether or not JAWS detects changes in languages within documents which support language tags.
For example, if JAWS finds Spanish text on a Web page, that text is spoken in Spanish. This detection only affects those synthesizers,
such as Eloquence, that support multiple languages.
In Word, the default setting is On. In Outlook, the default setting is Off.
 
 
Take care.  Mike.  Sent from my iBarstool.

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Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2023 7:07 PM
Subject: jaws reading some words in Spanish

Hi All,

I use JAWS 2022, word 16. JAWS at random speaks some words in Spanish rather than English. How can I stop this from happening?

Rahul

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Rahul Bajaj
Attorney, Ira Law
Senior Associate Fellow, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy
Rhodes Scholar (India and Linacre 2018), University of Oxford
Co-Founder, Mission Accessibility
Special Correspondent on the rights of persons with disabilities, Oxford Human Rights Hub
Coordinator of the working group on accessibility, e-Committee, Supreme Court of India




Karina Castro
 

Hi Rahul, check in JAWS settings if the option "detect languages automatically" are disable.  This can may help you.


El 3/1/2023 a las 21:07, Rahul Bajaj escribió:
Hi All,

I use JAWS 2022, word 16. JAWS at random speaks some words in Spanish rather than English. How can I stop this from happening?

Rahul

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Rahul Bajaj
Attorney, Ira Law
Senior Associate Fellow, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy
Rhodes Scholar (India and Linacre 2018), University of Oxford
Co-Founder, Mission Accessibility
Special Correspondent on the rights of persons with disabilities, Oxford Human Rights Hub
Coordinator of the working group on accessibility, e-Committee, Supreme Court of India




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Salu2, Kari

Mark
 

It sounds similar to experiences I've had with Word. Parts of my Word documents would suddenly be treated as if in French. Words were also indicated as being misspelled. I had no idea what caused it. After going to the language settings in Word,  Alt, r, u, l, I could set it back to English.  My conclusion has been that it is a bug in Word. But since I can't reproduce it, I could never report it. 

Ashleigh Piccinino
 

I've never had this issue, but it seems like if you have Spanish in your Word document, and your language detector is working correctly, then you would get the Spanish text.

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Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2023 4:32:33 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io>
Subject: Re: jaws reading some words in Spanish
 
It sounds similar to experiences I've had with Word. Parts of my Word documents would suddenly be treated as if in French. Words were also indicated as being misspelled. I had no idea what caused it. After going to the language settings in Word,  Alt, r, u, l, I could set it back to English.  My conclusion has been that it is a bug in Word. But since I can't reproduce it, I could never report it. 

Ashleigh Piccinino
 

For that poster who said they are language was in French, Did you learn some of the language anyway? ? Do you think it would help others to learn a new language, at least briefly? ?

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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> on behalf of Mark <mweiler@...>
Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2023 4:32:33 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io>
Subject: Re: jaws reading some words in Spanish
 
It sounds similar to experiences I've had with Word. Parts of my Word documents would suddenly be treated as if in French. Words were also indicated as being misspelled. I had no idea what caused it. After going to the language settings in Word,  Alt, r, u, l, I could set it back to English.  My conclusion has been that it is a bug in Word. But since I can't reproduce it, I could never report it. 

Mark
 

Ashleigh, I'm not sure if it would help someone learn a new language; but it is nice to hear new languages. 

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