[vicsireland] Re: Jaws 8
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- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:05:30 -0000
Hi,
I just put on jaws 8 today and like I think was mentioned earlier when I go
onto the internet jaws speaks like he is reading just one word per line. I
tried going back to 7.1 and it was the same behaviour but 7.0 is working
fine.
Paul.
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[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stuart Lawler
Sent: 03 December 2006 20:55
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Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Jaws 8
Hi Darragh and Flor,
Yes flor, I too like the new Daniel voice, although his intonation, or
prosody, or whatever you would call it really does drive me mad sometimes!
You are right, it is certainly a lot more sluggish and for speed reading or
just quick navigation, Eloquence is still the choice for me.
Interestingly enough though two friends of mine this weekend who are fully
sighted reacted much more favourably to the Daniel synthesiser, presumably
because of its more human sounding voice.
On other things, I love the new Internet Explorer version 7, or more
especially, I love the Tabbed browsing feature.
I think there's not a lot though to get very excited about in this latest
version of Jaws!
Stuart.
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[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Flor Lynch
Sent: 02 December 2006 14:34
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Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Jaws 8
This is a second try, as that damned freelists didn't let my message through
the first time.
Darragh,
I know the feature you're referring to. there's a checkbox in version 8 now
to tell another SSAPI5 voice (such as any of those in the ScanSoft RealSpeak
range if you have that installed)
to do the SayAll while another synthesizer such as Eloquence can be your
message and other voice. It is a bit slow to swicch, and also, if you
switch
between ScanSoft Voices themselves, it's a bit slow. However, These voices
take up huge amounts of space and processing power - as I knew from using VW
Kate and VW Paul with recent versions of K1000. So the slowness didn't come
as a surprise to me; but is in the nature of these human waveform voices -
they actually use prerecorded human speech phrases and samples and
'predictive' elements. . You can't really change their pitch - they are
human inflected as they are.
If you used a DecTalk Express synthesizer, you probably wouldn't benefit by
them. I will take a look at the RSS then.
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