[bksvol-discuss] Kurzweil crashing was Re: Re: page breaks in text files
- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 11:37:07 -0500
No window-eyes because I was afraid two screen readers would really have
problems installed together on a computer running xp. I should really
uninstall jaws and put a window-eyes demmo on instead to see if it has the
same problem with my onboard video.
I use eloquence with jaws and IBM Via voice with Kurzweil. as I said, I
know they aren't supposed to get along, but they're both necessary.
I haven't noticed any trouble at all with the amount of RAM I have, either
things run smoothely or they don't run at all, and I'm
not about to get more RAM now. A new motherboard or a fix for the jaws
problem are
needed before I even consider any spending for xp. What on Earth do you do
with your computer to need so much RAM? :-) I don't approve of concatenated
human speech synthesizers, so I don't care how much better it would work
with more RAM. Real speech fragments are for sighted people who can't get
used to computer speech, and who don't care about speed. They just don't
read smoothely and naturally like
a person, so I'd rather have a synth that reads smoothely, accurately, and
totally
unnaturally. <g> Via Voice meets those criteria.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
curious entity at earthlink dot net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guido Corona" <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 8:39 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: page breaks in text files
> Sara, your machine is a little skimpy in RAM memory. You may want to add
> another GB when you upgrade to XP. I would expect a certain amount of
> stuttering from your machine.
> I'd also would like to know if you have installed GW Micro WindowEyes with
> Eloquence and if you are using Kurzweil with the IBM ViaVoice TTS engine.
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> Guido
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> Guido D. Corona
> IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
> IBM Research,
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> "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> My computer is a 1Ghz AMD with 376mb RAM. The strange number is caused by
> 8
> mb being used for video. I run xp pro from the E partition of my
> harddrive,
> and have 98 on C. Kurzweil and all my other software is installed to both
> C
> and E, so the two operating systems can't mess with each other's files.
> I have an MSI motherboard with a VIA chipset that jaws doesn't get along
> with. Freedom Scientific is currently investigating, so I don't use xp
> much. I don't use it at all for scanning because I need a new PCI SCSI
> card
> instead of the ISA one I use in Windows 98. My crashes only happen when
> reading. I suppose I could say how often if I used it more, but I've kind
> of given up on xp for now. I really need a new motherboard, but I'm sure
> Microsoft would object to Xp being installed on what they will think is a
> new computer.
> I don't know if Kurzweil can object to my motherboard too, but I wouldn't
> be
> surprised about it if it did. Maybe it is just a continuation of the
> multiple synthesizers conflicting problem. It shouldn't be the sound
> card,
> because I don't use the onboard one. I installed a SoundBlaster Live
> value.
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> Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> curious entity at earthlink dot net
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 12:08 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: page breaks in text files
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> > Describe the system. That's not happening here at all.
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:57 PM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: page breaks in text files
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> > > Kurzweil 7 and 8 like to crash after completely random intervals on my
> > > computer under xp. Crashes are far less rare for me in 98, and that
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> > > dispite the fact that I use 98 about 98 percent more. lol
> > > Of course when it crashes in 98 I most likely will have to restart my
> > > computer, and in xp that isn't necessary to continue. I am always
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> > > reading something I have scanned when this happens.
> > > I believe it is synthesizer related, but I can't prove it. Xp just
> doesn't
> > > allow the use of enough synthesizers that are both tollerable and
> > unrelated
> > > enough to be run at the same time with Kurzweil and jaws.
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> > > Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> > > curious entity at earthlink dot net
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