MessageMike, Eloquence uses the wave output, just as your computer sounds do. I suspect that if you can hear the computer sounds then it is not muted and therefore not your problem. What is the default synthesizer JAWS is using on startup? Have you tried the Ins+Ctrl+s to change to SAPI 5 speech to see if Microsoft Sam comes up? Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Mote To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 3:18 AM Subject: Re: Strange problem with jaws. Larry, do you remember which one was muted? ----- Original Message ----- From: Larry Stansifer To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 6:37 PM Subject: RE: Strange problem with jaws. Mike, I had that happen to me and I had to get a sighted person to go in to the windows volume controls and uncheck a muted check box. HTH Larry -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Mote Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 5:27 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Strange problem with jaws. The computer sounds are there, but jaws is not. It comes up fine, on the screen. That is, sighted people can see it, but I just can't hear it. As for running jaws first, i have that disabled, so it won't come up when my daughter starts it up. ----- Original Message ----- From: RAWest To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 6:01 PM Subject: RE: Strange problem with jaws. Do you have any sounds coming out of the speakers? Maybe the volume has been muted. Robert To find me you can do the following. Skype id: rawest24 Aim id: rawest24 EMail: rawest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Mote Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 6:34 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Strange problem with jaws. Hi folks. I've encountered a very weird problem with jaws. I'be been using jaws version 8.0 on my daughter's computer, but for some reason, now, when it comes up, no speech at all. I've looked at the settings, and as far as I can tell, it seems to be right. I've tried reinstalling 8.0, but it won't let me do that, giving me a message asking for my authorization disk. The authorization is up to date on there. Anyone ever had such a problem as this? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Teach InfoWest Spam Trap if this mail is spam: Spam Not spam Forget previous vote