[jawsscripts] Re: Jaws and volume control
- From: "Negoslav Sabev" <negi4a@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 19:52:27 +0200
Be sure that you use sapi5 voice to make it work. Eloquence can not be
controled this way.
Negoslav
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andre Williams" <andre.williams.1965@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 8:32 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Jaws and volume control
> Thank you Don, but the jaws keyboard manager suggestion doesn't seem to
> work. I did exactly as you described and assigned control + F11 and
> Control
> + F12 to raise and lower the volume. The assigning of these hotkeys went
> just fine, but when I hit these hotkeys nothing happens. Is there
> something
> else I might be able to try? Jaws does state volume up and volume down, it
> just doesn't do it. Why do you think FS never bothered to create what
> seems
> like such a necessary hotkey? Is it not possible with Jaws? I'm thinking
> that if GW Micro could pull it off, FS should not have much problems
> either?
> (Shrug).
> Andre
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Marang" <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 9:51 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Jaws and volume control
>
>
> There are already JAWS Scripts for increasing and decreasing both the
> master
> and voice volume. They just do not have any keystroke normally set. Go
> into the Keyboard Manager, press Control + Shift + d to open the key
> assignments for default. Look for the individual functions, like
> IncreaseVoiceVolume(), press Control + a to add a new key assignment and
> follow the prompts.
>
> These scripts have been around since 5.1 or earlier. Now that Windows 7
> and
> Vista can individually set volume levels for each application with the
> volume mixer, I wanted JAWS to be able to adjust the volume level for the
> current application. I have been looking at this for a while. There is a
> small command line program, nircmd.exe, that I can call from a script to
> perform the action. The difficulty I ran into was what you were thinking.
> The program does not physically open the volume mixer, but the exact
> application name string in the volume mixer needs to be provided. Not
> only
> do I not know how to get this, but it is different between Vista and
> Windows
> 7. If anyone figures out how to do this, let me know. I think it would
> be
> nice to lower the volume of any application, such as Internet Explorer
> quickly!
>
> Don Marang
>
> There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any
> real
> substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am
> working
> on things that matter.
> Dean Kamen
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Andre Williams" <andre.williams.1965@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 8:03 PM
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Jaws and volume control
>
>> Hi everyone.
>>
>> I have just joined this list in an attempt to save my hearing. (laugh).
>>
>> I am curious if anyone has managed to script jaws so that within the
>> Windows
>> 7 master volume control, the jaws entry can be adjusted with hotkeys.
>>
>> As many may or may not know, Window eyes uses a different volume control
>> for
>> windows sounds and the screen reader. If they can do it then why can't
>> jaws,
>> right? I would like to find a way of scripting jaws to accomplish this
>> same
>> goal.
>>
>> To begin, does anyone know the exact name of the volume mixer entry for
>> jaws
>> output? I imagine I first need to know what it is I'm going to manipulate
>> before I can script it.
>>
>> So far I go to run and type sndvol and hit enter. The volume mixer pops
>> up
>> and I can tab to the separate audio streams.
>>
>> How can I find a path to the jaws audio stream in an effort to create a
>> script that will allow me to adjust the volume?
>> If this has already been done, please please convey how I can do this.
>>
>> I'm using jaws 12 on a Windows 7 home premium 64 bit computer
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Andre
>>
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