RE: Bug in eloquence for JAWS, hhope this helps a few people

  • From: "Wil James" <wil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:54:51 -0500

Another one that crashes Eloquence and ViaVoice is The forbidden word with
an a in front of it.  I tried other letters in front o c a e s u r e but it
passed the test.
 


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-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Robert Hebert
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 7:43 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Bug in eloquence for JAWS, hhope this helps a few people

I have just typed in the forbidden letters:
c a e s u r e but without the spaces of course.
Jaws or eloquence did indeed crash. I think the original post had s a e s u
r e.
It does indeed seem rediculous that one can't type whatever word one wishes
without crashing Jaws; but, crash it does!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Toews" <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 5:43 AM
Subject: Re: Bug in eloquence for JAWS, hhope this helps a few people


I have to agree with all the others here who've said you've just been fed a
line, Chris. I tried it with similar non-results.

Bruce

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On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Chris Skarstad wrote:

> hi.  I think the bug exists when eloquence runs across the word. 
> Typing it isn't enough, it has to actually try to speak the word to crash.
> I was told that it is the word" seasure, with the letters, a and e
reversed.
> so in other words, if eloquence runs across the word seasure, with the 
> letters, a and e reversed in it, i'm not going to type the word just 
> in case, then it's bye bye jaws.
> and this *has* happened before. an earlier version of JAWS and 
> eloquence had the exact same problem with the word "aesthetic".
>
>
>
>
>
> At 06:44 AM 3/8/2005, you wrote:
>> Jack, of course it can happen.  Speech engines have bugs in them just 
>> like any other software, and sometimes they can get stuck on certain 
>> combinations of characters.  I've had it happen before (three or four 
>> years ago, with Eloquence), with then-well-known words that crashed it.
>> however, on this occasion, I typed the offending word and nothing 
>> untoward happened with my Eloquence - using JAWS6 and Windows 
>> Millennium.  However, it is not my default synth.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jack Lowe" <akronjack1982@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 9:42 AM
>> Subject: Re: Bug in eloquence for JAWS, hhope this helps a few people
>>
>>
>> Chris,
>>
>> Did you experience this for yourself?  Or just take the word of 
>> someone who told you that it can be done.  The idea that Jaws can be 
>> made to crash by reversing two vowels is beyond ridiculous.
>> I tried it and nothing happened.  Unless it only works in certain 
>> situations, like live chat.  Sounds like a hoax to me.  You can't 
>> crash Jaws with text.
>> It's ludicrous.  Jack
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 2:49 AM
>> Subject: Bug in eloquence for JAWS, hhope this helps a few people
>>
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Recently I found out that if someone types the word, "seasure", but 
>> reverses the A, and the E, JAWS will crash.  I was on the Zone, a 
>> popular game and chat site and some people were talking about it and 
>> some people were even doing it to be mean, and crash some people's 
>> JAWS. I should point out that Eloquence seems to be the only synth 
>> that has this bug, yet another reason why I absolutely love my 
>> dectalk. It's immune to this type of thing. I do hope FS comes out 
>> with a fix for this sometime, because if you're going to have people 
>> who can exploit the bug, people's JAWS will keep crashing and it's 
>> really going to be annoying.  I just thought I would be a good guy 
>> and let some folks know why this was happening, if it was at all.
>> The only fixes right now are use a hardware synth, or just set up a 
>> hotkey and if it crashes, just keep restarting it. and if you have 
>> someone on msn who thinks it's cute to do that, block them or 
>> something. lol Hope this helps a few people.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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