RE: voices help again
- From: Bruce Toews <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:28:52 -0500 (CDT)
I have also purchased every piece of computer equipment I own
out-of-pocket. When FS accuses me of just whining without caring, and it's
happened, that is my reminder: if I didn't care I wouldn't bother, but I
feel I have an investment to protect.
I look at my attitudes toward JAWs and Window-Eyes, the latter of which I
won in a contest and the former I paid for. I believe that the fact that I
want JAWS to be as good as it can be is due in no small part to the fact
that I want to protect my investment. I've already contributed my money, I
want to contribute in any other way I can, too. Maybe this psychological
thing is just a personal thing with me. But I'm much more inclined to try
to make a difference with something I shelled out for than with something
given to me, though I certainly do apprecaite the gift.
Bruce
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Rose Combs wrote:
> Yes, and some of us pay out of our own pockets for everything. I am one
> of those people, every piece of computer or technology equipment I own I
> have bought one way or another, The last time rehab bought me anything
> was an Optacon in 1976.
>
> Than again, I don't have major complaints about Jaws, a few minor things
> I can work around maybe, but I'd have to think about that.
>
>
>
> Rose Combs
> rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Gene
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 4:17 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: voices help again
>
>
> One of the problems as I see it is that a lot of us have machines bought
> and
> paid for by one rehab commission or another. Unfortunately most of them
> are
> getting what ever is cheap instead of systems designed with the needs of
>
> Assistive software in mind. In my opinion none of us should be using
> anything less than a 3.2 MHz processor and 1MB of ram. But you won't get
>
> most rehab agents to pay for anything that powerful.
>
> Gene
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Toews" <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 7:03 AM
> Subject: RE: voices help again
>
>
>> Ah, okay, I understand. Well, it was the sound of the DecTalk Access32
>> that basically made me decide to go hardware.
>>
>> Bruce
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>> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, jim grimsby wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, was really not talking about the sound to tell the truth I was
>>> speaking of response time and stability. =20
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>>> Behalf Of Bruce Toews
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 2:54 AM
>>> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: RE: voices help again
>>>
>>>
>>> What is good in a voice is also subjective. I personally think
> DecTalk=20
>>> Access32 is the lousiest-sounding of the popular speech synthesizers.
>>> Many=20
>>> disagree with me. But the fact that GW Micro is the authorized dealer
>>> for=20
>>> DecTalk Access32 makes it very awkward for FS to simply start
> including
>>> it=20
>>> with JAWS.
>>>
>>> Bruce
>>>
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>>> Bruce Toews
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>>> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, jim grimsby wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> in regard to my last message for new voices available - does
> anyone=20
>>>> except for me think that jaws as a whole could have a lot better
> sound
>>>
>>>> in respect to the way that it gets the information across to us?
> i=20
>>>> feel that the voices available could be a lot better...your
> comments=20
>>>> would be greatly appreciated. There are a lot of other voices out=20
>>>> there that you can use with jaws. Jaws supports sapi 4 and 5. so
> you=20
>>>> may use what ever voice you wish. I personally believe the best
> voice=20
>>>> is the best sounding and taking up as little memory as possible.
> Also
>>>
>>>> cpu time is a consideration. Response time is another consideration.
>>>> The problem is the better the voice the more time it takes up the
> more
>>>> memory is used. Dectalk access32 has the smallest foot print and
>>> there
>>>> for should be the synthesizer that is being used. The response time
>>> on
>>>> it is better then any other software synthesizer. Your wish for
>>> better
>>>> speech is understandable and they are out there but jaws should use
>>> the
>>>> most responsive and stable as default. It is sad to me that they
> are
>>>> not doing so.
>>>>
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