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Suppose you're blind and use a screen reader. How does German sound when pronounced by an English text-to-speech engine, or vice versa? Which should be used to
by jfk13 5y ago
Suppose you're blind and use a screen reader. How does German sound when pronounced by an English text-to-speech engine, or vice versa? Which should be used to read out that "single text field" that contains a mix of languages?
- dvdkon 5y agoWhen reading mixed-language text we can't know if the "Tee" in the middle of an English sentence is German for "tea" or English slang for "t-shirt". We have to use imperfect context clues, so screen readers will have to do the same, it should be doable with today's technology. And if the software doesn't get it right every time, that's fine, because neither do humans.
- masklinn 5y ago> And if the software doesn't get it right every time, that's fine It really is not, a screen reader using the wrong language is way, way worse than a human with the wrong pronunciation. The first time voiceover decided to switch to russian in the middle of english text I thought the os had crashed, the mangling is quite extreme.