[macvoiceover] Re: verbosity on VO

I do not know this bug of which you speak....

On 11/19/08, David Poehlman <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bug?
>
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> From: "Travis Siegel" <windowbridge@xxxxxxx>
> To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:37 PM
> Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: verbosity on VO
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>
> The problem is: you can't compare percentages between speed, even
> between different versions of jaws, much less across operating systems.
> On jaws 3.2, I ran eloquence at 100 percent, when I went to 4.0, it
> required an adjustment downwards of several percentage points, because
> the scale of how fast it talked had been changed.
> When I went to version 5, I had to adjust my percentages back up
> again, because once again, the speed ratios had changed.
> However, on the mac, I *always* run Fred at 100 percent, because
> anything slower just irritates me to no end.
> (and occassionally, I'll take advantage of a bug to raise my speed
> even higher to read stuff when it's an extremely long passage, or
> something I just want to skim in a hurry)
> You'll just have to try a mac, and find a speed that works for you,
> I'm sorry, but that's just all there is to it.
> Everyone is comfortable with different speeds, and they just don't
> translate well even between different screen readers on the same
> operating system, not even taking into account the different versions
> of the same screen reader as I mentioned above.
>
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