[jaws-uk] Re: Daisy Book project
- From: "Husna Begum" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 15:32:50 -0000
Hi,
most of the voices are really rubbish and are just the old Microsoft text
voices but the one for holes is quite good. i don't know why the NLb really
needed to do this pilet test, any one would know which is better the voice
for harry potter or animal farm, or the one for holes. even my sighted
sister who doesn't much understand jaws for example immediately could tell
which voice was better. by the way i was listening to holes on my victor
classic and it said the book was 66 hours long and i thought, gosh thats the
lord of the rings trilogy put together, three days off my life but in fact
it was only about for or five hours long. does any one know why it made that
mistake in timing? i haven't seen it do that before. also does any one know
how to get easy reader to tell you how long the book is? even the voice for
holes has quirks such as saying im and ill instead of i'm and i'll which can
get annoying, i was surprised dolphin hadn't fixed such an obvious mistake.
also i've noticed that if you search for a word in easy reader you can read
the different entries it finds although it says headings and then if you
press enter on the bit that interests you the synthetic voice jumps to that
point which is really cool if you are a student.
Husna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Clydesdale" <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 10:22 AM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Daisy Book project
> Dear Bob,
>
> thanks for listing the keystrokes you use.
>
> I in fact did exactly the same, but did not remove Jaws, and haven't so
far.
>
> So far so good. Could you now please tell me, now that Jaws is removed,
how
> you then read the text of the book that is on the screen. This is really
> what I am interested in.
>
> By the way, I don't think anyone so far has a good word to say about the
> synthetic voices used for the books. I think they are pretty ghastly.
>
> With very best wishes,
>
> Keith
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Shirley and Bob Gould
> Sent: 10 December 2004 16:19
> To: jaws-uk
> Subject: [jaws-uk] Daisy Book project
>
>
> Hi Keith and all who are taking part in the NLB Daisy Pilot.
> I loaded the Dolphin #Easereader software with no problems yesterday. At
> first I could not get anywhere with trying to read the books on CD but
found
> that if Jaws is removed first then it works quite well.
> Here are the steps which I am now using.
> 1. Ins+F4 to remove Jaws
> 2. Load Easereader by pressing Ctrl+shift+E.
> 3. Insert the CD for the chosen book in disk drive.
> 4. Press Ctrl+O to open the book.
> 5. A voice will then confirm that the key is being processed
> 6. Tab once and press OK.
> 7. The synthetic voice should then commence reading the chosen book.
> By pressing the cursor right several times this can be skipped over.
> I am so far not impressed with the synthetic voices either on the books or
> that used by Dolphin. This just confirms that I was right to have chosen
> Jaws as my screen reader.
>
> Regards
> Bob Gould
> There is a lot of preamble before the actual book starts.
>
>
>
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