[nabs-l] JAWS and foreign languages

[Greg Aikens]

Hi Jewel,
I took spanish in college and ran into some of the same issues.  Your french department should have instructions for setting up an international keyboard on your computer.  This will allow you to type accented characters by pressing an extra key with the letter, such as the right alt key before a vowel to create one kind of accent on it.  I do not recall specific key combinations for the different accents etc, but when you set up the international keyboard you should be able to find a list of key combinations.  

Also, I was not able to find a way to set a slower speed for the Spanish voice in JAWS and so had to slow the speech down every time I changed languages.  You can set up profiles with Voiceover to do this on a mac however.  I am learning Russian and have a profile set up for the Russian voice that also slows the rate way down when I switch to that profile.  I can also switch profiles with a keystroke.  JAWS may have added this feature in the past few years though.  It has been a while since I tried to use JAWS for foreign languages.

Hope this helps.

-Greg

On Aug 24, 2013, at 10:16 AM, Jewel <herekittykat2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> I  just started French class and had a few questions about using
> French with JAWS. Really, it's two questions. The first is: How do I
> type accents that aren't in the Insert + F4 list, such as grave accent
> and the one with the ^ over the letter? With Insert + F4, I can type
> the more common ones, such as é or ç, but it doesn't have the grave
> accent (the accent that goes in a negative slope instead of a positive
> one) and the ^ accent. Does anyone know what keystrokes will bring up
> those accents or if there is a way to add them to the list for Insert
> + F4?
> My second question is about the French JAWS voice. My disability
> service office is really awesome and has gone through the French
> textbook and all of the handouts and set the French words to be read
> with the French voice. However, I have a problem with the speed of the
> French voice. I  have the JAWS voice set to somewhere around 40, but
> that's much too fast for a beginning French student! Is there a way to
> set just the speed of a language so that the French voice speaks
> slower than the English voice, or do I have to just go and change the
> verbocity each time I  open a French document?
> So, hopefully someone who has taken foreign language classes can
> answer these questions! I'm already enjoying French class, and got a
> 96 on my first quiz.
> ~Jewel
> P.S.- Welcome back to school, everyone!
> 
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