[JAWSLite] Re: can jaws use hardware synth if sound is busted?

Actually there is a command line ability to change the synthesizer,
unfortunately I don't have access to it at this time, (another comp that is
down for reload at the moment) so someone else will have to fill you in on
the details, hopefully.

regards,
inthane
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 7:42 AM
Subject: [JAWSLite] can jaws use hardware synth if sound is busted?


> Somehow sound got messed up on my PC yesterday. I have no idea how.  It is
a
> dual boot Windows XP and linux machine and when I rebooted into Windows,
it
> simply had no sound at all. Maybe it was a Windows update that was
> automatically installed when I booted into Windows.  Luckily, I happened
to
> have a USB headset handy. I plugged it in and got sound. Then I was able
to
> install the rest of the updates and run the Add Hardware wizard. I don't
> know what fixed it but the next time I rebooted, I got sound through the
> sound card. Problem fixed.
>
> Anyway, I was thinking that if I hadn't happened to have the USB headset
> handy, I'd have been sunk. On the linux side, in a similar situation, I'd
> use a hardware synth. I have linux configured to speak through the
hardware
> synth if it's connected. If not, it speaks via software speech.
>
> I was hoping to do something similar with jaws.  Anybody know of a way to
do
> that? Maybe something as simple as a batch script that reconfigures jaws
to
> use a hardware synth. Then if sound is busted, I can run the batch script.
I
> ought to be able to do that without speech. Just press Windows+r and type
in
> the name of the batch script.
>
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