Many thanks, I'll do that tomorrow. Ciao, Ron. -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of G.W. Cox Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 6:27 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: putting a synthesizer in to the jfw imi folder or whatever it is I had that same problem. The tech at Freedom Scientific told me to re-install JAWS 5. And it has to be version 500844. I know that's a pain but it worked. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronald Colombo" <roncol@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 11:49 PM Subject: RE: putting a synthesizer in to the jfw imi folder or whatever it is > Hi, > > There is no sap4 or sap5 detect item on my change synthesizer menu. I > get Eloquence, Microsoft Text to Speech sapi5 and No Speech. Am I > missing something? > > Ron. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Grant Hardy > Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 2:27 AM > To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: putting a synthesizer in to the jfw imi folder or whatever > it is > > Hello, > > See if your synthesizer is a SAPI 4 or 5 synthesizer. Press insert+j > for > the JAWS Window, go into language and change synthesizer and choose SAPI > 4 > detect. If your synthesizer isn't detected, go back to the Change > Synthesizer and choose SAPI 5. If it is a SAPI 5 synthesizer, you'll > see > the voices for your synthesizer under the "person" combo box under the > voices/global dialog. Now if it isn't sapi 4 or 5, it's a lot more > tricky. > Please excuse me if the below procedure seems complicated. > > Firstly you would need to have a JAWS-specific driver for your > synthesizer. > I'm guessing you don't. The file will have a .jls extension. If > however > you do have a .jls extension, do the following: > > Place the .jls file in the JAWS folder. In this example, let's say the > file > is called synth.jls and the JAWS folder is c:\jaws50. > Now, you would load Notepad and open the c:\jaws50\jfw.ini file. The > first > section of the file should be the setup information. Past there you'll > see > the word: > [Synthesizers] > Arrow down from there. You'll see a few lines of information for each > synthesizer. Supposing you are currently installed for two > synthesizers, > Eloquence and No Speech, go past the information for those synthesizers > and > press enter to create a blank line. Type: > Synth3Name=synth > Synth1LongName=Type your synthesizer's name here > Synth1Driver=synth > Replace the word synth in the first and last line of this text with the > driver name for your synthesizer. Then alt+f4 out of the file, save > changes > and reload JAWS. > If there isn't a .jls file for your synthesizer, contact the company > that > made it. Please let me know if you need further information. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On > Behalf Of Randy Tijerina > Sent: August 3, 2004 08:26 PM > To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: putting a synthesizer in to the jfw imi folder or whatever it > is > > > hi bruce and all. I am trying to see if i can get a synthesizer to > work > or become one of the choice language synthesizers besides the eloquence > one. > It is a russian synthesizer that i want to use for jaws. > Is there anyone that can tell me more or less how to do this/ > thanks. randy > -- > 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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