[jaws-uk] Re: SEPARATING JAWS SPEECH FROM SOUND CARD
- From: "Angel" <Angel238@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:21:12 -0500
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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