[ddots-l] Re: Set jaws to speak through a different soundcard

Hi:
i use a motu 2408 and an sb live
, i use the sb live soundfont capabilities, and i use one of the 2408 outputs for jaws , this way i have jaws voice in a separate channel in my mixer or most of the time thru headpones, i find it a lot more comfortable because many times i know everything jaws will speak and i put my headpones a little bit far away from my ears and if i need to listen more carefully i just put them back, and that way jaws is not as distracting when you want to put your full attention to your music or listening to a mix.I just select the motu outputs as the preferred device in the control panel, sounds and audio devices, audio tab .And i have never had any problem. 
Luis
----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Halton" <philhalt@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 5:52 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Set jaws to speak through a different soundcard



Sarah, that's a good question.
As it was explained to me by jaws tech support, when jaws boots, it grabs the first soundcard it finds. And, it always finds the card alphabetically. I have two cards--an Echo indigo, and a Soundmax. The soundmax is the built-in cheapy, and thats the card I want to assign to jaws, but unless I override the normal jaws boot procedure, it always comes up speaking through the echo indigo which is the high-end card I want to use solely in sonar.
I'm real curious what the names of your soundcards are as listed in control panel. I'll bet the one you want jaws to use has a lower alphabetical name than the other one. And, thats why you don't have this problem.
Please write back with those names as they appear in control panel. Maybe it'll shed some light on the problem for the rest of us.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah" <kales2@xxxxxxx> 
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 5:06 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Set jaws to speak through a different soundcard
Hmm. why not do what i do and set the recordin and playback devices in the 
ctrl pannel and then check the always use default devices box? Take care
SA&G


Here are those directions for making jaws use the soundcard you
specify for
speech output.  This is an excerpt from a JFW tech support bulletin.
Make
sure you don't do step two--installing the elloq.jls driver--its not
necessary for versions of jaws above 5.0

Question:


I have two sound cards on my computer. How do I make sure JAWS uses
the one
I want?

Answer:

Many JAWS users who also use music or audio production software want
JAWS
and Eloquence to speak through one sound card, while using the other
for
their
production work. To do this, you need to edit a file called JFW.ini
and
install the updated Eloquence Speech driver in the accompanying zip
file.

Editing the jfw.ini file:

1. Using My Computer or Windows Explorer, browse your hard drive to
the
currently running version of JAWS and find the jfw.ini file in that
folder.

2. Press ENTER to open.

3. You should find some lines that read:

Synth1Name=eloq

Synth1LongName=Eloquence for JAWS

Synth1Driver=eloq

The number doesn't matter, it may be 1, 2, or 3, but it must be the
same for
all entries for Eloquence.

4. Add the following line after the driver line: Synth1Port=SB Live!
Wave
Device Of course, you need to make sure that the synth number matches
the
other
lines, so that if the Driver line read:

Sytn3Driver=eloq

Then the port line would read:

Synth3Port=SB Live! Wave Device

The text after the = sign in the Port line comes from Control
Panel/Sound &
Multimedia/Audio tab It must be one of the entries that can be chosen
for
Preferred
Playback device.

5. Save your changes and exit Notepad. With JAWS version 5.x and
higher, you
are done.

If you have JAWS version 4.x, you will also need to install the
updated
driver. As long as JAWS is running and speaking through Eloquence,
eloq.jls
cannot
be simply overwritten when unzipping the file. You will need to
switch to
NoSpeech or MS SAPI to get the eloq.jls to overwrite properly.

1. Download the file from

ftp://ftp.freedomscientific.com/users/hj/private/eloq.zip

2. Unzip the zip file into the root of the active JAWS directory
where you
made the change to the jfw.ini file.

3. Restart JAWS and it should now be speaking from the sound card you
wanted.

4. If not, make sure the entries are correct in the jfw.ini file and
that
your sound card is indeed installed correctly. Most audio and music
production
software allows you to select a sound device for it as well, so it
can use
one sound card while JAWS uses another.

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