Re: Play Sound button in Jaws pronunciation dictionary

  • From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:18:06 -0800

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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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Yardbird wrote:

> I recently switched from Jaws 4.51 to Jaws 6.  After I input a phonetic
> approximation of a word Jaws isn't pronouncing realistically, I tab to get
> to the OK button.  But whereas I'd arrive in one press of the Tab button 
> at
> OK before, now I find myself traversing several other controls, for 
> instance
> something to do with a language combo box, as well as a play sound button.
> I don't get the reason for this in the first place, because the way I hear
> what my phonetic creativity will produce is just by having Jaws read my
> entry.  But, whatever.  I figured they want to get fancy or something.  So 
> I
> press Enter on Play sound button.  But nothing happens.  So I tab to OK
> anyway,and that's that.
>
> So what's the deal with this Play Sound button, and why doesn't it do
> anything?
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
>
>
>
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