Re: FS Reader Demo
- From: "Angelo Sonnesso" <asonnesso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 04:05:50 -0500
You are wrong there is a way to speed up the pacemaker plug-in without
changing the pitch.
I haven't set it lately, but if I remember correctly you just change the
tempo control.
Let me know if you have any trouble and I will check my settings.
I would look now, but I don't have it running on this machine.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Hebert" <roberthebert@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 3:21 AM
Subject: Re: FS Reader Demo
> When you install jaws 6.0 on your machine you must use the advanced
> feature in
> order to get the Daisy files transferred onto your FS Reader directory.
> A guided install will put the training materials on your machine in MP-3
> format
> and HTML format so you can read them as text or as mp-3 files using your
> favourite audio player but the FS Reader will not access them unless you
> use the
> advance install feature.
> With the FS Reader you will have all the Daisy navigational features. You
> will
> also have speech compression--increasing speech rate without changing the
> pitch
> plus the ability to pause, bookmark, alt-tab out of the program and
> practice any
> training features you are reviewing. There is some flexibility using
> winamp for
> strictly the MP-3 formats but this is limited and much more awkward than
> using
> the FS Daisy Reader. There is even speech compression in Winamp using the
> pacemaker plugin and while this will allow you to increase rate, the pitch
> is
> changed proportionately. The FS Reader is supposed to maintain voice pitch
> as
> speech rate increases but it does a very poor job in this regard and in my
> opinion is not really much better than the Winamp pacemaker plugin. Some
> Daisy
> readers such as Victor-soft have a very excellent speech compression
> feature
> that allows you to crank speech up to 4 or 500 words per minute without
> almost
> no noticeable change in pitch.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Edward Marquette" <emarquette@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:59 PM
> Subject: FS Reader Demo
>
>
>
> Listers:
> I had the impression that FS had included the FS Reader Demo for two
> reasons:
> (1) to market it to JFW users in such a way that having tried it, they
> would buy
> the full version and (2) to put the tutorial materials, information
> primarily of
> use to new users, at their fingertips.
> It is, therefore, doubly ironic that FS Reader Demo is hard to find,
> without any
> reference in the JAWS "Help" system, and enabled so that readable books
> are not
> in at least a default directory.
> Well, I found FS Reader, but there were no readable books in the default
> folder.
> There was some material there, but, thank you very much, I would rather
> have it
> in RTF format. All of the Audio Menu options were unavailable.
> I thought I read somewhere that the files were on the program CD. So,
> within FS
> Reader Demo I tried to browse the CD. FS Reader Demo refused to admit
> that I
> have a CD ROM drive, even though that is obviously from where the program
> had
> been installed.
> Using Windows Explorer, I'm pretty sure I found the files. I copied them
> to
> program files\ freedom scientific\ Training \ ENU.
> FS Reader found nothing.
> Two questions:
> If FS really wanted to accomplish either of the objectives identified
> above and
> if the team had their collective heads screwed on correctly, wouldn't use
> of FS
> Reader be as easy as falling off a log?
> 2. Am I so stupid that I have found falling off a log a true challenge to
> my
> computer skills?
> Actually, don't answer that second question! <SMILE>
>
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