Re: realSpeak
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:42:36 -0800
Hi Alex,
I wasn't shopping, but thanks for the recommendation. How come it's great?
You mean the product is excellent, or the difference it makes for you is
wonderful? One of those? both?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Stone" <alex.stone@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 2:21 PM
Subject: RE: realSpeak
I've just bought an IMic as a second sound card, and it's great.
Cheers.
Alex
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Yardbird
Sent: 21 December 2006 21:13
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: realSpeak
Hi Ted,
As I said, I have a very good ear for musical fidelity, and this sound card
does just fine. So did the one in my last computer, actually. It seems to
me like years ago when I used to hear people worry over which sound card
would play a screen reader clearly, and that sort of thing. A bunch of
years. If I really were worried about things like signal to noise ratio and
frequency range enough to critically test a sound card in those regards, I'd
have to have an amp and speakers hooked up to the computer that were as
serious as my stereo system, and no, to me, the computer's like a nice,
medium-fi table radio. As long as it doesn't distort anything within its
speakers' frequency range capabilities, within the range of volume levels
possible before hitting an audible distortion point, I'm just fine.
as for multiple sources, well, as I said, I don't do that.
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS)" <Ted.Lisle@xxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 1:00 PM
Subject: RE: realSpeak
You probably won't need to worry about it for awhile; from what I know,
that's a good one. The products have improved a lot over the years. I
guess it would get down to things like s/n ratio and d/a conversion
quality. Just a few years ago, it was considered exotic to have
multiple streams going at once--like being able to hear JFW, if
necessary, while playing a CD.
Ted
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Yardbird
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 2:56 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: realSpeak
Thanks, but would you mind answering a very simple question from someone
inexperienced with these things? What makes a sound card "better," in
the
way you mean it? I have a Dell computer of recent vintage, a single
sound
card (I'm not a big techhie, so I have to launch Belarc Advisor to see
what
it is), it's a SoundBlaster Live 24-bit.
Now, I have Jaws with the standard Eloquence software synth, and that
works
and sounds fine. Sometimes I stream audio or play an .mp3 file or a
music
CD, and that sounds fine, too. Given this, what use would I make of a
second sound card? Something specialized that I don't know enough to be
able to imagine, until you tell me?
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vicki Wherry" <amethyst17@xxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: realSpeak
I have two sound cards because I used an onboard card, and then I added
a
better sound card later. I use the most recent one, but since I
reformatted
my computer a few weeks ago, I think certain programs try to use the
first
card. I need to disable the onboard card in the bios, and hopefully that
will fix the problem.
Vicki
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: realSpeak
Does a person actually need two sound cards in order to make use of
these
extra voices alongside the Eloquence voices? Or do you use two sound
cards
for some other reason, basically? I have never heard that I won't be
able
to take full advantage of the Jaws 8 upgrade unless I learn about dual
sound
cards and install something new in the way of hardware. thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vicki Wherry" <amethyst17@xxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: realSpeak
Your suggestion worked. Now I just need to figure out a way to get it to
recognize my second sound card. I edited the .ini file in JAWS to get
eloquence to work, but that doesn't seem to work for RealSpeak.
Vicki
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Jenkins" <saveup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 3:25 PM
Subject: RE: realSpeak
Hello Vicki.
Do you have jaws for Windows starting automatically? If you have jaws
for
Windows starting automatically it is very possible that the RealSpeak
voices
are coming through the soundcard that was installed last. To see if
this is
your problem unload Jaws for Windows and restart it.
I hope this helps.
Chris.
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf
Of Vicki Wherry
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 4:19 PM
To: JFW List
Subject: realSpeak
I can't get the realSpeak voices to read in the "say all" mode. The text
is
being read, that is, the curser is moving, but everything is silent. I
somehow got it working yesterday, but I'm not sure what I did. Today,
again,
it's not working. Any suggestions as to what the problem might be? I
installed Jill, Lee, Karen and Emily, and none of them are reading.
Vicki
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