[jaws-uk] Re: SEPARATING JAWS SPEECH FROM SOUND CARD
- From: "Wendy Sharpe" <w.sharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:51:43 -0000
Thanks for that, and the spelling is correct. I can do a search or price
comparison to get the best buy.
Wendy
-----Original Message-----
From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Angel
Sent: 24 January 2007 13:44
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: SEPARATING JAWS SPEECH FROM SOUND CARD
They are Logitech, forgive the spelling as that may be wrong. I don't know
where you might get them over there as I am in the states. If you have a
best buy or any computer or office supply store I would think you could
purchase them there. My daughter bought them for me. Those I have have a
microphone attached for playing games and such. But, the microphone works
for chats and such for us. Good luck. Let us know the results of your
quest.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wendy Sharpe" <w.sharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 7:51 AM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: SEPARATING JAWS SPEECH FROM SOUND CARD
>I hadn't thought of this at all, and had no idea this solution would do the
> trick. Could you tell me what make and where you got your USB headphones.
>
> Wendy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On
> Behalf Of Angel
> Sent: 24 January 2007 08:21
> To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: SEPARATING JAWS SPEECH FROM SOUND CARD
>
> If you have a usb port on your computer, why not buy usb headphones. Jaws
> will speak through these head phones while the music or other audio will
> play through the speakers. I am really a dumbo when it comes to
> configuring
>
> sound cards and such and I have found this is something I could easily
> manage.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wendy Sharpe" <w.sharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Jaws" <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 4:51 PM
> Subject: [jaws-uk] SEPARATING JAWS SPEECH FROM SOUND CARD
>
>
>>I originally asked the BCAB list whether it is possible to separate JAWS
>> speech from the sound card so that I could listen to radio broadcasts,
>> etc,
>> without JAWS coming through the same sound source. This is because the
>> volume varies a lot, depending on what you are trying to hear, and if you
>> need to turn the volume up and then want to issue a command to JAWS, JAWS
>> speech is far too loud.
>>
>> Two suggestions were made. The first was to get an external sound card
>> with
>> another set of speakers and have JAWS on the main sound card and other
>> things directed to the external card. The second suggestion was to
>> attach
>
>> a
>> Dec-Talk Express synthesiser and install it using the JAWS maintenance
>> tool
>> to add the Dec-Talk as a second synthesiser. A member kindly sent me his
>> Dec-Talk, which he no longer uses.
>>
>> If I go into the whole story of what happened next you will be here all
>> night, but it did appear that I had a serial port next to the parallel
>> port
>> on my PC, and although it was a female port and the plug on the Dec-Talk
>> was
>> also female, I bought the relevant gender bender and fitted the Dec-Talk
>> to
>> my PC. Having modified JAWS to add the Dec-Talk, I tried changing
>> synthesisers, but got no speech. I had first made the mistake of
>> installing
>> Dec-Talk as the default synthesiser instead of Eloquence, and then had to
>> ask for my sighted neighbour's assistance to get speech back. As he
>> knows
>> nothing at all about computers, and doesn't want to, this proved a little
>> difficult, but we managed, and I re-modified JAWS to make Eloquence the
>> default again.
>>
>> I then had a lengthy discussion on the BCAB list about what this female
>> serial port might be. Went into Device Manager and found it to be a
>> secondary display adaptor, although Compaq had told one member who was
>> trying to help me that it was a serial port. After much arguing to and
>> fro,
>> I decided to buy a USB serial adaptor which I received today. The
>> Dec-Talk
>> fitted perfectly, but before fixing it up I installed the serial adaptor
>> using the driver CD provided. Installation was straightforward, and then
>> I
>> went to Device Manager to verify the port. This is what it said:
>>
>> Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port (COM4)
>>
>> Even if the port beside my parallel port is a serial port, I only have
>> one,
>> so why has this adaptor been installed as COM4? I know that Dec-Talk
>> likes
>> COM1, and when I fitted the unit to the serial adaptor and tried to
>> change
>> synthesiser, I was not surprised to get no speech and have to re-start
>> the
>> computer. I know the Dec-Talk is ok, as it tells me it is running when I
>> turn it on.
>>
>> Am I on a hiding to nothing here? Is it possible to do either of the
>> following?
>>
>> Change the serial adaptor from COM4 to COM1
>>
>> Change Dec-Talk from COM1 to COM4
>>
>> Are there any other ways to separate JAWS speech as I have outlined
>> above?
>>
>> Any advice or suggestions would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Wendy
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