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2011-10-07 15:24:21

katm

Registered: May 23 2011

Posts: 31

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I've set my tagged pdfs language to Spanish. The InDesign text is Spanish. But Acrobat X's "Read Outloud" reads #s in English (five instead of cinco) and text is read in an awful American English accent.

Will Jaws and screenreaders used by Spanish readers do any better?
kat

Kat

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 10.1, Macintosh

2011-10-07 15:58:07

KellyMcC

Registered: Jul 11 2011

Posts: 389

Accepted Answer

The read out loud function of Acrobat & Adobe Reader is dependent on the voices supported by your operating system. Jaws (and other dedicated screen reading applications) would definitely read in Spanish. Apple has some recommended resources here (check out iVox for a 30 day demo):

http://www.apple.com/accessibility/resources/macosx.php

If you have upgraded to 10.7 (Lion) there are built in multilingual voices (which you do have to download after selecting):
http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/24/os-x-lion-introduces-new-multilingual-high-quality-text-to-spe/

After getting an OS voice that supports Spanish, go to Acrobat > Preferences or Adobe Reader > Preferences and choose Reading on the left. Un-check "Use default voice" and select your new Spanish voice.

Kelly McCathran
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2011-10-13 06:21:32

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Registered: Jan 6 2011

Posts: 27

katm wrote:

I've set my tagged pdfs language to Spanish. The InDesign text is Spanish. But Acrobat X's "Read Outloud" reads #s in English (five instead of cinco) and text is read in an awful American English accent.Will Jaws and screenreaders used by Spanish readers do any better?
kat

Have you contacted Freedom Scientific (developer of JAWS) about this yet? I believe they actually have downloadable voices that are more geared toward a specific language that will sound much more natural.

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Spanish screenreaders?