Re: Jaws 7.1 speech issues

  • From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:38:22 +0100

I'm using a demo copy of JAWS 8, and I'm having no speech loss issues
here on my Toshiba laptop. Try a repair. Hope that helps.
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:30:10 -0500, acarthon@xxxxxxxx said:
> Hi list, 
> It's AC. I am wondering if anyone else has had this happen to them. I had
> it happen twice. once today and once yesterday. 
> Yesterday, while on the Internet a Jaws dialogue box popped up saying
> that I didn't have a license for my copy of Jaws, so it kicked me into
> the 40 minute demo mode. Well, I knew that this wasn't true, so I went to
> the about Jaws dialogue to see what was there. It reported that I had no
> more upgrades which I knew wasn't true and that I had so many more
> minutes before the demo ran out. 
> Next, I went to the activation option within Jaws and performed all the
> necessary steps. I registered successfully and Jaws had the correct
> number of upgrades this time. 
> However, I went to read a word document I had saved on my computer using
> the say all command and after a while Jaws just stopped speaking with no
> warning. I had to get some sighted assistance to see what was going on.
> Jaws had the send report dialogue up, so I told my mom what to do. The
> report was sent, but no Jaws speech was returned. 
> There was also another instance of this today while I was reading using
> the say all command on the Internet where Jaws just stopped speaking. 
> There was an additional dialogue that popped up this time saying that
> memory couldn't be read... click okay to terminate the process or cancel
> to debug. I clicked okay to terminate the process, and I was placed back
> on the desktop. 
> The Jaws dialogue box saying sorry for the inconvenience came up again
> with no speech. I had my mom turn off the computer, and I started it from
> the beginning again. 
> I am thinking about doing a repair on Jaws. This does seem to be a Jaws
> issue with the info I have been seeing. 
> I am going to e-mail FS about this as well. 
> I just figured that I would share this with the list to see if I am the
> only one experiencing this. 
> I am using IE 7, Jaws 7.1, and windows XP home.
> Thanks in advance, 
> AC 
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