[bvipilots] Re: questions about getting started

  • From: "Brent Harding" <brent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:53:48 -0600

I decided to try at this yesterday. I found good and bad news though. I started with training the speech recognition in Windows, and Jaws does kind of echo back what you're speaking if the system understands, but it doesn't tell you what words you leave off at if it doesn't. I just hit skip and then it would read where I was, so that obstacle is down. I managed to get FSX purchased and downloaded, only to find out that my graphics card on this laptop doesn't have the shaders or something they need. I'm not sure if that's $31 down the drain, or if there's another way to get going. On my desktop machine, not sure if that video card has shaders either because it's older, I haven't tried because I can't get past the speech control panel error where it says the necessary engine can't be created. If I go spend more money on 2004, will that run with my inferior graphics that I can't see anyways, or is there some kind of firewire/USB graphics card I can add to trick this into running, all be it looking not great on screen? 


Thanks.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Kolesar" <kolesar16417@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2012 7:03 AM
Subject: [bvipilots] Re: questions about getting started



What you train is the voice input program.
The message that you need to read can been seen if you route the pc curssor to jaws. 
I think you can do it the same way for xp users.
But try the following to see if you can find it.
hold down your windows key.
Then type in control.
This wil place you in the control pannel.
Now press the letter s until you see speech recognition.
Then smack your enter key.
If you tab through you chould see advance.
Smack enter key here.
Pretty much everything here is self explainatary.
Hope this helps you out.




Ron and current Leader Dog boz who states
"that a service dog beats a cane paws down any day of the week."
-----Original Message----- From: Brent Harding 
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2012 12:31 AM
To: bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bvipilots] Re: questions about getting started

I was going to buy this thing from the Microsoft Marketplace thing as a
download, since they have the disks out of stock. Will that games for
Windows client work with Jaws? I assume it's some kind of downloader, but
I'm not sure. Once I do get it going and get Itsyourplane installed, how do I get the speech recognition thing trained? Will it read me a bunch of weird phrases I need to say back, or will the Jaws cursor find that, or is it even 
necessary to do?

Thanks.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Kolesar" <kolesar16417@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 9:46 PM
Subject: [bvipilots] Re: questions about getting started



Hi Brent.
You found the right place to ask your flying questions.
My name is Ron Kolesar and I live here in north west corner of Pennsylvania with my current leader dog Boz. The one main problem with jaws is that you have to tab back tap and to make sure you have the bird that you want to fly you have to route to from the pc curssor to the jaws curssor. 
I really haven't had that much luck with NVDA.
But other's will probably have some help for you.
If you have Microsoft flight simulator version ten gold which is bettern known as fsx gold,? 
I can help you set up your first flight plan.
Hope this helps you with your first flight.
Blind Pilot

Ron and current Leader Dog boz who states
"that a service dog beats a cane paws down any day of the week."
-----Original Message----- From: Brent Harding 
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 9:34 PM
To: bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bvipilots] questions about getting started
Hi there. I had just found this list not long ago after googling around to see what the current state of blind people flying with MS Flight Simulator 
was since I understand that FSNavigator was shut down shortly after some
initial demos were posted on Blind cool tech. I ended up finding some of the demo files with IYP from the various forum posts that are out there., and I'm interested in getting this set up. I still have XP on my machine yet. I 
use Jaws for my screen reader. How would I get through the speech
recognition trai without sighted help? Would NVDA or something work better 
to get over this hurgle? Also, since all the demos I dug up were using
FS2002 or 2004, how will things work with FSX, which is what I assume is the 
only legally available version of flight sim sold now? I heard on some
messages that Jaws won't speak with it, and others that do if one escapes
the first flight they put you in on first start. I figured I would ask first 
before I put a bunch of money down on something that won't work on my
system.

Thanks.

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