Re: FS Reader Demo
- From: "Cher Bosch" <Cher.Bosch@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:16:33 -0600
So, List- What to do? If you installed JFW6 from the FS site before
your CD arrived, can you now get the files to show up in FS reader?
Must you accomplish this by modifying your installation and selecting
advanced? I did it the "copy from CD" way described on this list
several weeks ago, but, as you have said, the Basic Training does not
show up in the FS treeview with this method.
Cher
>>> florlync@xxxxxx 3/28/2005 8:06:28 AM >>>
The Guided Install of JAWS (probably the better option) will give you
the option of installing the FS Reader files/training materials or
not.
They are an extra 200 Mb. When that is done (for JAWS6.0), you can
access them via the FS Reader - on the desktop if you want. They will
be in the form of books and topics in the Tree View when the FS reader
is opened. So, while the FS Reader Demo itself is installed,
installing
the training files is optional.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Hebert" <roberthebert@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 9:21 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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