- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:52:27 +0100
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John Foliot - Stanford Online Accessibility Program wrote: > As far as I know, current screen reading technology only supports a limited > number of languages. [snip] > The question is, is there any real advantage gained by adding this > information (lang="lat") to the content? Even if there were no speech synthesis available for a language, screen readers like JAWS can announce language changes and users can associate particular voice configurations with particular languages. As it happens, it looks like Classical Latin is among the MBROLA voices: http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html It is therefore (at least theoretically) usable with at least some screen readers and text-to-speech software, e.g. NVDA, FreeTTS (used by FireVox), and Emacspeak: http://www.nvda.fr/spip.php?article14 http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/mbrola/ http://web.mit.edu/ATIC/src/emacspeak-9.0/mbrola -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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