Re: Eloquence Stuttering
- From: "Dave McElroy, WA6BEF" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:36:38 -0800
That issue was prevalent back when I got this PC in 2001 and I think I had
to go and find updated drivers on the website.
And I can't remember now, but it seems to me I had to uninstall the box
version of the drivers first before installing the new one. I could do
this, as I had and still have outboard speech.
At 09:43 AM 12/4/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have recently installed an SB Live 5.1 sound card on my Windows 98 SE PC
>running Jaws 5. We only installed the
>drivers, not the accompanying software, to save cluttering up my PC
>unnecessarily, as I am really only interested in the
>multi-channel capabilities of the card. I now have multi-channel sound,
>which is fine, but there is a problem with
>Eloquence. It works fine when I first boot the PC, but after a few minutes
>it starts to stutter and takes longer to respond to keystrokes, and this
>gets more noticeable the longer I use the PC. I remember that some other
>people have experienced this problem, and would be interested to know the
>best way to solve it. I had a look on the FS web site and found that a
>replacement Eloq.jls driver file is available which has improved matters
>slightly, but the stuttering still occurs to a lesser extent.
>
>I have also tried DecAccess 32 in the hope that this speech engine might
>take up less processing power and so might be a workable alternative, but
>the stuttering was just as noticeable.
>
>I have heard that Gateway produced some drivers for the Sound Blaster cards
>which are supposed to remove the crackling problem under XP, but I'm
>reluctant to try these unless someone can confirm that they also help the
>stuttering problem in Windows 98.
>
>Through my former sound card, an AWE 64, Eloquence did not stutter but was
>slightly garbled at the beginning of lines when cursoring up and down
>through a document or list of files. Its performance was definitely not as
>bad as with the new sound card though.
>
>I'd very much appreciate any help,
>
>Caroline Ford.
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