[Athen] Latin book

Joseph Polizzotto jpolizzotto at htctu.net
Tue Feb 20 09:35:03 PST 2018

Hi Justin:

A couple questions and suggestions:

Does the Bookshare version of Wheelock contain language tags (e.g.,
<span lang="la">...</span>) for the Latin text?

If not, I would create stand-alone HTML files using the Sigil EPUB editor:

(Try this out with one page before proceeding)

1. For each XHTML file, strip out the extraneous Bookshare content
using a regex find and replace (Bookshare EPUB metadata, styles etc.)
2. Use the Clip Editor to add <span lang="la"> ... </span> around each
Latin fragment
3. Add necesary HTML markup to the document e.g.,

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
...
</head>
<body>
....
</body>
</html>

Have you installed the SAPI 5 voices for eSpeak?

There is a Latin voice from eSpeak that helps with Latin prosody.

1. Download the eSpeak SAPI 5 speech synthesizer:
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/download.html
2. At the download voices screen, add the Latin voice:
la
3. In JAWS menu, switch to SAPI 5 synthesizer, which should now
contain the Latin voice

Note: there is another mb-la (Latin) voice that you could use, but
your mileage may vary. See:
https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/303

If your student is amenable, you can also try the Latin voice using
NVDA. Select the eSpeak NG synthesizer.

I have attached a simple document that you might use for testing.

HTH,

Joseph



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Joseph Polizzotto
HTCTU Instructor

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