Re: Play Sound button in Jaws pronunciation dictionary
- From: "Judith Bron" <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:01:05 -0500
This is a dictionary I never heard of. Is it available in Jaws 5.1?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: Play Sound button in Jaws pronunciation dictionary
> Hi,
> I'm afraid this isn't related to my question. Thanks anyway. I know that
> these are functions available in Jaws. I was speaking specifically of the
> operation of the pronunciation dictionary, nothing else.
>
> thank you again,
> Daniel
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Margaret Thomas" <iluvtoread@xxxxxxx>
> To: "jfw" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 9:06 AM
> Subject: Re: Play Sound button in Jaws pronunciation dictionary
>
>
> Yardbird,
>
> I'm also trying to familiarize myself with some of the new
> features of the later versions of JAWS. Here's a post from Debbie
> Scales from when JFW 5.0 came out that might help get you started:
>
> Eric Damery sent me some tips on playing with sounds with Jaws 5.0 and
> I
> thought I would share one tip with you.
> Currently in Outlook Express as you scroll up and down your message
> list,
> if you had a message from me with an attachment you would hear
> attachment Debbie Scales.
> Say instead of hearing the word attachment on a message with an
> attachment,
> you wanted to hear a whistle.
> Here is how to accomplish this:
> First you must relabel the attachment graphic.
> Move up and down message list until you are highlighting one with an
> attachment.
> JAWS should say "attachment" when reading that item. Now,
> RouteJAWSToPC
> (JAWSKey+NumpadMinus on the desktop,
> JAWSKey+LeftBracket on the Laptop) to move the JAWSCursor to the
> highlighted item. Now left arrow until you hear the word "attachment"
> spoken.
>
> Press JAWSKey+G to start the Graphics Labeler, now type in
> attachmentsound
> for the label and press ENTER. That is the word attachment followed
> by the
> word sound, all lowercase and no spaces.
> Now use the arrow keys to move up and down the list of messages.
> Anytime
> you come across a message with an attachment, you should hear this new
> word attachmentsound instead of "attachment."
> Okay now for the next step. Now let's associate the label
> "attachmentsound"
> to the whistle.
> To do this, we need to use the Dictionary Manager. Press insert D for
> the
> dictionary manager. Press the space bar on the add button. Clear out
> anything that might be in the edit field and type in attachmentsound.
> Press
> TAB once to go to the "Replacement
> Word" edit box and type a space. This makes JAWS speech remain silent
> when it finds this unique word. Press TAB again to move to the
> Advanced
> button and press the space bar. You're now in a list of
> sounds. Arrow up and down the list of sounds and press the
> space bar to listen to one. You can select any sound here, the whistle
> is
> one.
>
> After you select your sound, press ENTER to close this dialog. Press
> TAB
> to move to the "OK" button and press the space bar. Press CTRL+S to
> save
> your new rule. Press ALT+F4 to close the Dictionary Manager.
>
> Now try scrolling up and down your messages and see if you hear the
> sound
> when a message with an attachment is highlighted.
>
>
> I haven't tried it with JAWS yet, but hope this helps.
> Margaret
>
> "Yardbird" wrote:
>
>
> I've read a lot of that material on the FS web site. I just didn't
> happen
> to come across anything to do with the dictionary, bdcause I sort of
> assumed
> the important changes were the ones they're always most proud of,
> namely
> those to do with Web browsing. I'll look again.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Toews" <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 8:22 AM
> Subject: Re: Play Sound button in Jaws pronunciation dictionary
>
>
> No, I mean go to the FS website and look under what's new for the
> various
> versions, the changes and so on. Whenever you're upgrading to new
> versions or anything, this is a wise precaution.
>
> Bruce
>
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> E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: water_drinker@xxxxxxxx
> Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries):
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>
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Yardbird wrote:
>
> > You mean look in Help under dictionary? Okay. No problem.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bruce Toews" <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
> > To: "Jaws" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 8:07 AM
> > Subject: Re: Play Sound button in Jaws pronunciation dictionary
> >
> >
> > I suggest you look at the improvements in some of the latest
> versions of
> > JAWS. One of these is a dictionary that allows you to assign a sound
> to a
> > specific word. It's all well-documented, and the documentation could
> > probably explain it better than I, but that's it in a nutshell.
> >
> > Bruce
>
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