Yeah, this example for when in Outlook is the only time I've used the play sound function in Dictionary Manager so far. I haven't thought of or heard of any other good reasons to use it, although I'm sure there are some. Maybe someone else out there uses this play sound function for other applications and can comment on it? Chris Feist - The one and only! -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Margaret Thomas 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 -- Bruce Toews E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: water_drinker@xxxxxxxx Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net Info on the Best TV Show of All Time: http://www.cornergas.com 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 -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. 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