Hi everybody, I forgot to say after rebooting change the jaws synthesizer to sapi 5 and then set your voice. When you've done that shut down jaws and restart it. It should then be using the sapi 5 voice. John. ----- Original Message ----- From: john coley To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 1:22 AM Subject: Re: Using Neo Speech engine with Jaws Hi everybody, I was going to send these instructions offlist, but given that several people need them I thought it would be easier to post to the list. The instructions are below. John. We need to find the code of the speech engine on the system then match it up to the correct frequency in a JAWS file. It's a bit fiddly, but could you do the following please: 1. Go to the Start menu, then Run. 2. Type "regedit" and press Enter 3. On the treeview, arrow down to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and press the right arrow. 4. Arrow down further to SOFTWARE and press the right arrow again. 5. Do the same for Microsoft, then Voices, then Tokens. 6. In Tokens, look for the required speech engine. I'm not sure what it will appear as in this case, but it should be something with the voice name in it, Paul or Kate or whatever.. 7. When you've found the right one, press Tab. 8. Arrow down to CLSID and press Enter. 9. Press Control+C to copy the long "value data". 10. Press Escape then Alt+F4 to exit the Registry Editor. 11. Press the Start key, then go to Programs, JAWS, Explore JAWS, Explore Program Files 12. Arrow down to SAPI5x.ini and press Enter. 13. Press Control+End to get to the end of the file, then press Enter for a new line. 14. Press Control+V to paste the CLSID number. Place [] brackets around it, for instance: [{9892E74A-B96D-4747-9D2A-87646C3D9E4C}] 15. Then on the line below, type the following: Output=23 [or whatever number applies to the frequency of your voices. The settings you can find in your sapi5x.ini file. 16. Then save the file and exit. 17. Change the voice back to Eloquence, then restart the computer. 18. When the computer has restarted, change the voice to one of the neospeech voices and see if it has changed. ----- Original Message ----- From: Luis A. Difut To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 1:02 AM Subject: RE: Using Neo Speech engine with Jaws Hi, I would like to have those instructions for neospeach voices with jaws. Please send them to me off list! Luis... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of john coley Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 7:52 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Using Neo Speech engine with Jaws Hi Michael, yes you can use your neospeech voices with jaws. They will appear in the list of voices when you change your jaws synthesizer to sapi5. You may notice though that the voices don't sound happy, they may sound lispy and/or crackly. This is because Jaws needs to know the frequency of the voices. To do this you need to get the cls id number for each of the voices, which involves going into the registry, and then pasting that number into your sapi5.ini file, which will be in your jaws folder. If you'd like I can send you step by step instructions how to do it, but if you're not happy editing the registry you may need further help doing it. If you want the instructions let me know offlist. John. ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael G. To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 12:21 AM Subject: Using Neo Speech engine with Jaws Hi All, My Kurzweil 1000 software already comes with the Neo Speech engines. It has both the male and female voices. is there any way to get these to work with Jaws? I found the folder that contained the Neo Speech files but I'm not really sure how to get Jaws to use these. . Michael