IBM Home Page Reader

Changing what language is used to read the document

HPR offers the following language settings:

• "Automatic", where HPR tries to determine the language of the web document
• American English
• British English
• Spanish
• French
• German
• Italian

When HPR speaks a web page, it uses the defined language to speak the page text, alt text, and text that identifies a page element. For example, if Spanish is the defined language, when HPR encounters "start of form 3", HPR speaks this text in Spanish. However, HPR speaks most HPR messages in the default HPR language.

There are two ways to change the language setting. The language shortcut is simpler, but requires the use of the Control key, which is located on the standard keyboard rather than the numeric keypad. You can also change the language setting using the Settings menu. In this case, you will only use keys that are located on the numeric keypad.

One step to change the language setting using the language shortcut:

1. Hold Control and use the numeric keypad to type in the code for the language setting you prefer. The codes are:
   • Automatic -- 0
   • American English -- 1
   • British English -- 2
   • Spanish -- 3
   • French -- 4
   • German -- 5
   • Italian -- 6

Seven steps to change the language setting using the settings menu:

1. Press the asterisk key on the numeric keypad to open the settings menu.
2. Press 8 and 2 on the numeric keypad to move up and down the settings menu until you hear the "speech settings" item.
3. Press 6 on the numeric keypad to open the sub menu for speech settings.
4. Press 8 and 2 on the numeric keypad to move up and down the speech settings sub menu until you hear "language".
5. Press the 4 and 6 keys on the numeric keypad to move back and forward in the list of language options.
6. When you hear the language setting you want, press the asterisk key on the numeric keypad to return to the settings menu.
7. Press the asterisk key on the numeric keypad again to return to normal mode.

One step to check the current language setting:

1. Hold Control and press the dot on the numeric keypad to hear the current language setting.

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