[access-uk] Re: JAWS no speech problem
- From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tris-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:23:21 +0100
Hello Ray
Jaws does have a mute command but it takes more than one key press to turn
it on, you turn it on thus:
1 Press insert+V and then latter M until you get to mute.
2 Tap spacebar to turn it on and then press enter.
Jaws now remains silent until you press insert+V again where it will come
straight back. Note that this method does nothing to the soundcard.
I have never understood the mechanism by which Jaws users manage to get the
soundcard muted but it does happen. I don't think this is Jaws problem/bug
but so far unreproducable sequence of events that lead to the soundcard
being muted. You can usually tell this is the problem because you will not
hear the start up toen that Windows on most setups normally plays. If you
get no tone and no speech, it's very likely to be the soundcard mute rather
than Jaws not loading.
If muting of the soundcard is becoming a common issue then you might want to
try a peice of software on thw www.jfwlite.com website called Quick Mix,
which allows you to restore at startup a pre-set group of settings for the
soundcard, this means whatever you do to it in one sessio can be undone and
set back by restrarting the PC, that way the problem should never occur
again.
Hope this is useful.
Regards.
Tristram Llewellyn
Sight and Sound Technology
Technical Support
www.sightandsound.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 12:24 PM
Subject: [access-uk] JAWS no speech problem
I'm asking this question here because I am not a JFW user and not subscribed
to JAWS lists.
A friend I've helped before who does have JAWS finds he has yet again lost
speech output. Its weird that this keeps happening. JAWS is configured to
load at start-up and I prsume it is loading, but he's hearing nothing.
Somehow I think one of the mute settings in the audio mixer keeps getting
put to the on status.
So, just two questions: does JAWS have a mute command, and if so, what is
it? Second, is there a hot key to load JAWS when its not running?
I am really puzzled as to why this keeps happening and wonder if there is a
keystroke he is inadvertantly pressing that is causing this to happen.
Either that or some mischievous software fairy is doing something on the
sly.
Ray
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