JAWS and MAGic provide language switching with any supported speech synthesizer. When a Web page author indicates the language of an entire page, or just part of a page, if the synthesizer in use supports that language, JAWS or MAGic use the language specific version of the synthesizer to speak the text. The synthesizer must support the language of the information, but the synthesizer does not have to be a SAPI 5 synthesizer.
If the synthesizer does not support the language specified for a page or part of a page, JAWS (or MAGic) still indicates the language of the information.
To demonstrate automatic language detection, we start in English and write:
"My computer speaks English."
Then we write the same sentence in French,
mon ordinateur parle français
and then in Spanish,
mi computadora habla español
and in Portuguese,
meu computador fala o português
and the same in German,
mein computer spricht deutsch
and in Russian,
Мой компьютер говорит по-русски
and in Finnish,
Tietokoneeni puhuu suomea
and in Italian,
il mio computer parla italiano
and in Greek,
Ο υπολογιστής μου μηλάει ελληνικά,
and in Polish,
Mój komputer mówi po polsku
and in Chinese,
我的電腦說中文
JAWS or MAGic switch between the languages very smoothly, when they can. If JAWS or MAGic only said, Russian, Greek, or Polish, instead of reading the text in those languages, this indicates that your speech synthesizer does not support those languages. Even so, JAWS and MAGic indicate the language being used.
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