[JAWSLite] Re: :Sapi5 Voices

lets see Marsha. I don't know where speech options is or how you selected SAPI 5 for your default. Well how ever you did it and I think it is synthesizer options in the jaws configuration manager, you have to go back there and select eloquence as the default. Now don't forget to hit control shift d for default configuration when you run the configuration manager. I think you said you liked Sam. I am surprised because Sam sounds so bad. Now lets pick a real speak voice. Open the jaws configuration manager and hit control shift d for default configuration manager and then hit alt y and it will say use SAPI 5 for say all check box not checked. So check it and then tab over and you will have a combo box where you can pick a ssai 5 voice. tab more and hit okay and hit control s to save it. I think Samantha is the easiest to understand but you will have to play with it and see which works best for you. Now lets get rid of the real speak voices that we don't want. They take up about 100 megs each and if we don't need them we shall get rid of the ones we don't want. It is a bit confusing and it took me a while to figure it out. Stick the real speak cd in the drive and it will say do you want to modify or remove or something like that. Pick modify. tab until you get to the list of voices. there are 7 of them. On each voice you don't want, you hit the context menu key and up and down arrow you will hear install the entire feature on your computer. go to where it says make feature unavailable and hit enter. do this on every voice that you don't want and tab to next and hit space bar and it will take them out. Call me on the phone if you have trouble and we will do it together. 

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----- Original Message ----- From: "marcatony" <marcatony@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 5:36 PM
Subject: [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
----- Original Message ----- 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



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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