RE: Natural voices
- From: "Ronald Colombo" <roncol@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:07:45 +0200
Hi Gary,
This is how its done:
In order to get AT&T Natural Voices to be recognized by JAWS you have to
edit the JFW.INI file in the installation folder of the version of JAWS
you are using (i.e., C:\JAWS451 if using JAWS 4.51). The additions you
need to make are in the "Synthesizers" section of this file and should
be similar to what follows although the upper case "X" and "Y" in this
example are only for demonstrating that you must determine the numeric
values to replace "X" and "Y." You don't have to have Eloquence as the
number "1" synthesizer either, but for the sake of example I left it as
it actually appears in my JFW.INI file:
------------
[Synthesizers]
Synth1Name=eloq
Synth1LongName=Eloquence for JAWS
Synth1Driver=eloq
SynthXName=AT&T
SynthXLongName=AT&T Natural Voices
SynthXDriver=mssapi
SynthYName=NoSpeech
SynthYLongName=No Speech
SynthYDriver=nospeech
------------
Just a note here about the "SynthXName=AT&T" line; I suggest you don't
attempt to be at all verbose in naming the value here because it seems
to me that JAWS will try to match the letters you use with it finds in
the registry -- so the more letters you use the more likely it will be
that you have it wrong and JAWS won't be able to find it (and there
should be no spaces embedded in the "AT&T" entry). This does not apply
to the "SynthXLongname=" line, I believe this is only for documentation
purposes and I know you can use a value of any choosing so long as when
you want to change to this synthesizer (unless you set it up as the
number "1"
synthesizer) you can recognize the long name you enter as the one that
references Natural Voices; heck, try "Icabod Crane" in this value and it
will work! And as for the "SynthXDriver=MSSAPI" -- I used this driver
bedcause I was unable to get the MSSAPI 5 driver to work on my system,
but it may be more convenient or perform better if you can get MSSAPI5
to be recognized, I cannot speak to this at all!
One final note, you may need to add a line like:
AT&T=dectalk
in the "Synonyms" section of the settings\enu\SYMBOLS.INI file, perhaps
JAWS 5.0 already has included a line like this or has specifically
defined a section for Natural Voices, again I cannot speak to this since
I have not installed JAWS 5.0 as of yet.
Hope this helps.
Ciao,
Ron.
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