[j-say list] Re: mic status sounds and less greater

  • From: Brian Hartgen <brian.hartgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "<j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>" <j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 14:57:07 +0000

As an additional note, you should also set the jaws punctuation to "Some" 
rather than "All".

Brian 


On 6 Feb 2013, at 14:19, "Ed. Rosenthal" <edward@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Lori- let me suggest that you run a repair install of JSay and it should 
> restore the .wav files for the mic status.
> 
> Regarding the less greater...this is the system processing sound when in the 
> sleep state.  If this is a Win 7 laptop make sure that the 'onboard' mic has 
> been disabled (this is a known Win 7 bug whereby the onboard mic isn't muted 
> when an external mic is plugged in).  In addition you may find that cycling 
> the mic to 'true off' and back using Shift + f11 minimizes this less greater 
> issue.
> 
> -ed.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Lori Russell
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 8:05 PM
> To: j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [j-say list] Speaking contents of dictation box, etc.
> 
> The young man I am currently help with J-Say/JAWS is a boy I worked with when 
> he was in high school. At the time, we had JAWS/J-Say, etc. all set up 
> perfectly .... unfortunately when he got a new laptop and new version of 
> JAWS, his settings weren't transferred I don't think. His voice profile was 
> transferred though.
> 
> Prior, we had it set that when he said "Wake up", there would be a "dong!" 
> sound to let him know it had responded.  We have it set to echo his commands, 
> but to be sure, he still has to say "Check microphone".  
> Does anyone know how to set it so it makes a sound when awakening or going to 
> sleep?  We have J-Say sounds enabled.
> 
> Secondly, it keeps saying "less than, greater" when he isn't dictating but 
> the microphone is on (it's speaking what is showing in the dictation box).  
> That's very distracting and annoying when he's trying to think about what to 
> type.  It didn't do that before.  How do we change that?  
> We have "echo commands" on, which is very helpful to him, and we had that 
> previously, but didn't have it saying "less than, greater" every second over 
> and over.
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> 
> Lori Russell
> Golden BC
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