Re: Jaws basic training in Daisy format:
- From: Chris Skarstad <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 01:25:47 -0600
the trick is to put the Daisy books in the folder that FS reader expects to
find them in, or at least direct FS reader as to where they are. After all
without any daisy books to read, what good is the thing?
At 01:06 AM 3/4/2005, you wrote:
>Well, many thanks to both Roy and Jack. I have fixed the problem. I
>reinstalled
>Jaws for the third time and voila, or bravo or whatever, this time it worked!
>I have all the training books in the FS Reader menu. What a great feeling to
>have this thing doing what it's supposed to. I didn't really need those
>training
>files in the FS Reader directory--but I really did need to get the thing
>working
>as it was supposed to.
>I don't think I did anything differently--Guess the program knew who was
>going
>to win in the end!
>Many thanks again!
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Roy Nickelson" <roylee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 5:27 PM
>Subject: Re: Jaws basic training in Daisy format:
>
>
>hi,
>ok when you open fs reader and press control + o what do you see? you
>should have a window like the following.
>Open
>01_Custom_Schemes_in_Speech_and_Soun
>02_Placemarkers_and_Custom_Page_Summ
>03_Custom_Labels
>FSReaderGettingStarted
>JAWS60BasicTraining
>WhatIsNew
>Open Cancel Change Directory
>
>select one of the books and press enter. then press control + p or just
>start reading.
>Roy
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert Hebert" <roberthebert@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 8:01 PM
>Subject: Jaws basic training in Daisy format:
>
>
>Freedom Scientific is advertising their basic training in Daisy format. Even
>with technical assistance from the Canadian National Institute for the
>Blind,
>neither I nor they could get this feature to work.
>I can read the audio files in MP3 format--Winamp is invoked
>automatically--but
>none of the standard navigation available in Daisy format is available when
>simply navigating the files as MP3's. I do have the fast forward and rewind
>and
>volume features in Winamp working but the speech compression and place
>marker
>features, available in the Daisy format are of course not available in
>Winamp.
>Question: Where and how are the training materials available in Daisy
>format?
>I installed the training files from the Jaws 6.0 program disk. These are in
>the
>training\enu file and the FS reader is on the desktop.
>The instructions for using the FS Reader are indeed available in Daisy
>format
>with all the navigation keys but there are no training files available here.
>Has anyone been able to get this to work.
>I read Chris' post and did copy the files to the training\enu as he
>recommended
>and even put them in a Victor books directory on my desktop. Many other
>Victor
>books files I have in that directory read in the true Daisy format but the
>Jaws
>training files read only through Winamp.
>I then uninstalled Jaws and reinstalled it and made sure the training files
>were
>installed through a guided install and still I can read these files only
>through
>Winamp but not with the FS Daisy reader nor with the Victor Soft software.
>Sorry for the lengthy post but now that you know what I have done, Can you
>now
>apprise me as to what I haven't done or haven't done correctly?
>
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