[jaws-uk] Re: jaws talk

I think Barbera has hit the nail on the head there.  The Eloquence part of 
Jaws is modelled upon a human speaker.  Generally speaking in English speech 
the prosody of voice get's lower towards the and of a sentence.  If there is 
no punctuation this behaviour carries on, and the virtual speaker is running 
out of breath.  This is probably why you are experiencing this phenomena.

Regards.

Tristram Llewellyn
Sight and Sound Technology
Technical Support
www.sightandsound.co.uk

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Lorimer" <tlorimer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 1:57 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: jaws talk


The voice gets lower as it reads down the page, and returns to normal when 
it starts reading the second page, and so on.

Tom.



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: adrian.rowe
  To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 1:45 PM
  Subject: [jaws-uk] jaws talk


  I'm very curious to know?  When I am reading a long text with JAWS, the 
reading voice seems to get lower in tone, and not stay static at the same 
pitch.

  Does anyone have any idea why this should happen?

  Adrian Rowe 

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