Re: TextAloud helpful user guide with jfw7
- From: "Albert Martinez" <albertmart2006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:51:19 -0800
Hello Maria where can I get the program text aloud?
Albert in Los Angeles California
email and msn messenger albertmart2006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Skype albertm1970 if you also have any questions call my number (323) 338-7253
----- Original Message -----
From: Maria Kristic
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:00 PM
Subject: RE: TextAloud helpful user guide with jfw7
You cannot use the Eloquence Reed voice, as JAWS uses a proprietary version
of Eloquence which is not available to other applications for use as a SAPI
synth. You can certainly, however, use the RealSpeak Solo voices or any other
SAPI synths you may have on your system, and you can change the default voice.
To do so, from the main TextAloud window, go to Options > Voices and File
Options; if you TAB around in this dialog, you'll find a combo box which allows
you to specify which SAPI version you want available (SAPI4, SAPI5, or both),
as well as a tree view of available speech engines (the first level being the
name of each of the available speech engines on your system; open the
appropriate engine's "folder" to see the available voices of that engine, with
the available voices/engines available in the tree view depending on what
you've selected in the SAPI combo box described above). After selecting the
appropriate voice, you'll reach pitch, speed, and volume sliders, and you can
adjust parameters as you desire provided that the selected voice supports them
(for instance, the AT&T Natural Voices do not support pitch adjustment, so no
matter how you adjust the pitch slider, the pitch of the voice will not
change). Next, hit the "Set Default" button, followed by the "OK" button;
you'll see a confirmation message asking you whether you wish to change the
default voice, so activate the "Yes" button, and your voice will successfully
be changed. BTW, if you're listening to an article with the default voice, but
you decide that you want to temporarily hear it read in a different voice
without having to change defaults, you can quickly change the voice for that
article in the main TextAloud window; SHIFT+TAB twice from the article text,
and you'll land in a list of voices from which you can select, at which time
TABBING will bring you to the Article Title edit field and pitch/speed/volume
adjustment sliders before you are taken back to the Article Text field.
HTH,
Maria
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
leslie
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 4:40 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: TextAloud helpful user guide with jfw7
I use text aloud but was wondering how to change the default voice Mary to
using reed I use jaws 8 I have the option of SAPI 4 or 5 and am using the real
speak with my jaws program. Thanks Leslie
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