[JAWSLite] :Sapi5 Voices

  I will try this again.  I installed the Real-Speak voices yesterday. 
After I installed them, I went to the speech options and made Real-Speak the 
default computer voice.  I thought if I did this, I could use the voices to 
play games such as Jim Kitchen's games.  I was wrong.  They only talked when 
Jaws was running.  Can I use Real-Speak when Jaws is not working>  If so, 
how do I fix it?

Marsha Anderson
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From: "David Maynard" <dmaynard35@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 5:43 PM
Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: Sapi5 voices- was Re: accessible text to mp3


Thanks George.  There are only 3 or 4that I can understand.

David Maynard

Franklin NC

dmaynard35@xxxxxxxxxxx



At Saturday 3/31/2007, you wrote:
>Hi David:
>I don't think so.  I assume you are refering to the Realspeek voices
>that came with JAWS 8, if so here is what I did:  I uninstalled the
>Realspeek voices and did a new install using the custom install,
>there you can choose just the voices you want.
>HTH,
>George R. Marshall
>geom4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 2:52 AM
>Subject: [JAWSLite] Sapi5 voices- was Re: accessible text to mp3
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>
>>Is there any way of uninstalling part of the sapi5 voices and
>>keeping only a couple?
>>
>>David Maynard
>>
>>Franklin NC
>>
>>dmaynard35@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>At Friday 3/30/2007, you wrote:
>>>Hi Chris and list. I was excited about the real speak voices and
>>>tried to get use to them. For me I thought Samantha was the
>>>clearest to understand. I have two cochlear implant hearing
>>>devices. After a few months of trying to get use to it. I
>>>unchecked the say all with SAPI 5 and just use eloquence. It is
>>>too bulky and when you use it for the first time after you start
>>>the computer, it takes a ling time to get going. and you have to
>>>go slow or it seems to trip over itself. Other people have said
>>>the same thing to me. And I agree that freedom should not have
>>>added this to the product. I like crystal of at&t natural voices.
>>>But again eloquence is fine.
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: <mailto:ccollins1@xxxxxxxxxxx>Christopher Collins
>>>To: <mailto:jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 7:33 PM
>>>Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: accessible text to mp3
>>>
>>>Hi, Mohammed and greetings to all:
>>>
>>>Though I don't have a direct answer to your question, you make an
>>>excellent point about Eloquence.  On December 4, 2006, I posted a
>>>message to the yahoogroups JAWS list shortly after I had installed
>>>and tried out the RealSpeak synthesizer I received with JAWS
>>>8.  The subject of my post at that time was Raining on the
>>>RealSpeak Parade.  I agree with you, Mohammed, about
>>>Eloquence.  Here is what I said at that time.
>>>
>>>Greetings to all:
>>>
>>>The old saying goes that it's difference of opinion that makes
>>>horse races.  A few folks on this list have been very excited
>>>about the addition of the RealSpeak Sapi5 Solo Synthesizer to the
>>>new JFW8.  Well, here I come to express just the opposite
>>>viewpoint and to say that I can not share in the enthusiasm.  In
>>>fact, after having installed it and tried it out, I have gone so
>>>far as to remove it once again from my computer.  I'm writing this
>>>to make it known that not everyone necessarily likes it. What are
>>>the reasons I don't like it?  Let me try to tell you all why.  If
>>>you simply consider only the actual quality of the voices
>>>themselves, you would have to be enthusiastic,  because they are
>>>of announcer quality.  As far as just the vocal quality itself,
>>>these synthesized voices have never yet been equaled.  But just
>>>hearing the vocal quality alone is not the whole story of what
>>>synthesized speech should be.  It doesn't stop there. Because
>>>while Eloquence does not have the vocal quality of RealSpeak, it
>>>does a much better job of handling something just as (and, maybe
>>>more) important which is the inflection, the cadence and the
>>>ultimate emotionality of the reading.  I find the RealSpeak speech
>>>to be rather stilted and unnatural.  You can almost hear the
>>>speech being pieced together.  The phrasing and the emphasis is
>>>often all wrong.  At times, some words seem to get almost
>>>swallowed up and mumbled over.  Even with its poorer actual voice
>>>quality, I still feel that Eloquence wins hands down when it comes
>>>to capturing the emotional eexperience and communicating the real
>>>meaning of what I am trying to read.  I think FS should not have
>>>added this product to JAWS until some of the inflection issues
>>>became  handled in a more advanced manner than they are at
>>>present. Sorry, folks! At 08:04 PM 3/30/2007 +0700, you wrote:
>>>>HI!
>>>>
>>>>Does anyone know of an accessible program which can convert text to mp3
>>>>using via voice/eloquence?
>>>>
>>>>God willing, I'll be away from computers for about 4 months to a year 
>>>>and I
>>>>definitely do have many books to read.
>>>>
>>>>So far I only like and understand eloquence the most in comparison with 
>>>>any
>>>>other speech synth.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks in advance
>>>>
>>>>Muhammad Islah Busakorn
>>>>
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