[jaws-uk] Re: JFW sound not working at startup

Jim,
If you already have a cassette player which you can bring to the computer, you can connect it to the inline socket on your sound card and use a program called CDEx which is free, it is primarily a program for extracting audio from CD's to computer, but it has some additional tools including one for recording to your computer from an analog source, the program is freely available from many sites including http://www.whitestick.co.uk. 

Regards,

Pete H.
----- Original Message ----- From: "jim williams" <jwbr33694@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 11:14 AM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: JFW sound not working at startup



Mike,

Glad you got sorted out.  I'm interested in the Realtek AC97 Cassettee/MP3
converter and how compatible it is with JAWS etc.  I've got hundreds of
cassettes I want to copy onto my computer and this sounds like the ideal
thing I need.

Any suggestions as to where it can be purchased and any teething problems
you had and overcame would be appreciated.

Jim Williams

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From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mike Higgins
Sent: 22 October 2008 17:37
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: JFW sound not working at startup


Thanks all for your help.

In the end, I have finally managed - with the help of Norman's e-mail and
Blazie Technical Support - to fix my problem.

I have a cassette to MP3 converter connected to my machine via USB (with
accompanying software installed). This has been in place for a number of
months now and has worked perfectly alongside Jaws, however after ghosting
my hard drive, I needed to re-install Jaws. When I did so, the software
already in place told the now new Jaws installation to use the USB Audio
Codec assigned to the cassette converter in preference to my computer's
on-board sound card. This was however only the case when the cassette
converter was plugged in.

It was for this reason that the speech worked fine for the first couple of
days after I copied my hard drive and re-installed Jaws from disk. This was 
before I re-connected the cassette converter. The re-connection prompted
Jaws to use the USB Audio Codec (which is not attached to any speakers) in
preference to the on-board sound card on startup.

To fix the problem, I followed Norman's suggestion to actively tell Jaws
which sound card to use. Not being too familiar with the inner workings of
Jaws, I asked Blazie Technical Support to talk me through the process.

For anybody interested, here's what I did, step-by-step (for Windows XP):

1) I opened 'Control Panel' from the Start Menu and went to 'Sounds and
Audio Devices'

2) I selected the 'Audio' tab to find out what my 'Sound playback Default
device' was. It is a Realtek AC97 Audio.

3) Then I went to the Jaws installation folder (for me, this is on the C:
drive under c:\Program Files\Freedom Scientific\JAWS\8.0) and opened the
file 'JFW.ini' using the Windows Notepad programme.

4) To tell Jaws which sound card to use, I then had to scroll down to the
section concerning "Synth1". This had lines beginning with "Synth1Name=",
"Synth1LongName=" and "Synth1Driver=".
5) I then inserted a new line after "Synth1Driver=" and before "Synth2Name=" 
which reads as follows:

Synth1Port=<Sound Card Name>

For "Sound Card Name, I inserted insert the name of my Sound Card. It now
reads:

Synth1Port=Realtek AC97 Audio

This has done the trick and I am now much less flabbergasted. Once again,
thanks for your help.

Best wishes,

Mike Higgins,
Email: m.j.higgins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Address: 1 Portland Court, Sheffield, S6 3EW, UK.
Tel (voice and, by prior arrangement, fax): +44 (0) 114 2258676
Mobile: +44 (0) 7956 856060


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