RE: Jaws 10 and RealSpeak Solo direct voices
- From: "Jeffrey Schwartz" <sidney.schwartz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 09:13:06 -0500
Yes, they are external units which connect via a serial (com) port. I'll
have to get to the back of my pc and see if it has a serial port. I
downloaded some of the real speak voices. I particularly liked Serena.
When I made a profile for her, I discovered that her voice breaks up in an
annoyingly consistent way. What is the key combination to bring up the
voice profiles? I thought that it was insert-shift-s, but that's not it.
Thanks for your help,
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Bruce Toews on an Unspecified Input Device
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 8:14 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Jaws 10 and RealSpeak Solo direct voices
It all depends on which incarnations of the DecTalk you have. If they're
the old card-based units, unlikely, since no modern computer has slots
to accomodate them. But if they're serial-based, and your computer still
has either a serial port or USB to serial converter, you should have no
problems.
Bruce
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 08:05:38 -0500, "Jeffrey Schwartz"
<sidney.schwartz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Hey Bruce,
> I have three, count them, external Dec talk synthesizers. They all
> worked
> just fine when I put them away. Just for the sake of experimentation, do
> you think that I could get jaws to speak thru one of them? When you
> consider it, the cost of using jaws has really come down. Those units
> cost$1100 each when that was some serious money. It's never been cheap
> to
> be blind.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> Of Bruce Toews on Unspecified Input Device
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 7:16 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Jaws 10 and RealSpeak Solo direct voices
>
> Perfect Paul was a part of the DecTalk family of voices, so as DecTalk
> went, so Perfect Paul went. Can't say that I missed him, but again, that
> is simply a testimony to the fact that voice preference is very
> subjective.
>
> Bruce
>
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> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Jeffrey Schwartz wrote:
>
> > What happened to Perfect Paul. Did he go the way of the Dec talk?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf
> > Of dave-d0619
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 6:41 AM
> > To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: Jaws 10 and RealSpeak Solo direct voices
> >
> > When you use synthesizers such as the RealSpeak synthesizers, for
example,
> > is that when you speed them up, the quality of the speech deteriorates
> > considerably. Also, they use more computer resources than synthesizers
> such
> > as Eloquence.
> >
> > Personally, I find them irritating and annoyingly slow for everyday use,
> > which is why I would only use them for functions such as "SayAll" with
the
> > appropriate JAWS command
> >
> > When I first used Eloquence, I did not like it very much. But, like
many
> > other people, I have got used to it.
> >
> > Sincerely:
> >
> > Dave Durber
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bruce Toews on Unspecified Input Device" <bruce@xxxxxxxx>
> > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 6:26 PM
> > Subject: RE: Jaws 10 and RealSpeak Solo direct voices
> >
> >
> >> The voices on the Stream are vastly scaled-down versions of the
RealSpeak
> >> voices. The ones included with JAWS sound considerably better. They are
> >> not, as I have said several times now, meant to replace Eloquence.
> >>
> >> bruce
> >>
> >> --
> >> Bruce Toews
> >> Proud JAWS User
> >> Skype ID: o.canada
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> >>
> >> On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Jeffrey Schwartz wrote:
> >>
> >>> What is the advantage of this alternative to eloquence and the voices.
> > I
> >>> think that two of them are the same as the ones available on the
Victor
> >>> Stream Reader. It's the only thing that I don't like about it. Tom
and
> >>> Samantha sound like they are choking.
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf
> >>> Of Roger Levine
> >>> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 2:13 AM
> >>> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> Subject: Re: Jaws 10 and RealSpeak Solo direct voices
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> You do not need to save the FT download , just run it and you will be
> >>> prompted to hit the install button and the module will go to the right
> > place
> >>> within the FS Folder. The FS Daisy Basic Training is very helpful
with
> > this
> >>>
> >>> topic.
> >>> Roger
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 9:18 PM
> >>> Subject: Jaws 10 and RealSpeak Solo direct voices
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> First off, let me say that I've been looking at every book and topic
> > under
> >>>> Jaws Help, and have also been to the FS page with the selection of
new
> >>>> RealSpeak voices. Even so, I still need to ask these questions.
Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm using Jaws 10. I'd like to install one or more voices from the
> >>>> RealSpeak
> >>>> Solo Direct page at the FS site, but I don't understand what I'm
> > supposed
> >>>> to
> >>>> do.
> >>>>
> >>>> When I click on the FTP link for a voice, I get a common download
> >>>> dialogue.
> >>>> Fine. First of all, do I want to run or save? if it's Run, what
> > happens?
> >>>> And
> >>>> if it's Save I want, then in which folder of my hard drive should I
> > place
> >>>> it
> >>>> ?
> >>>>
> >>>> And then, how do I actually install it and get it working?
> >>>>
> >>>> I used to use Jaws 9, and I installed the old RealSpeak voices from
the
> >>>> Jaws
> >>>> 9 CD, and they all appeared in my Say All item on the Configuration
> >>>> Manager
> >>>> Settings menu, and I knew how to get a voice working as the default
Say
> >>>> All
> >>>> voice or, if I preferred, to set it up so that if I pressed Alt key
> > Insert
> >>>> down arrow instead of the regular Say All command, the voice would
kick
> >>>> in.
> >>>> So I have that experience. But I can't figure out how to install one
or
> >>>> more
> >>>> of the new voices. this.
> >>>>
> >>>> I hope my question is clear. Thanks for any assistance.
> >>>>
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