RE: Natural voices
- From: "Ronald Colombo" <roncol@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:32:29 +0200
Hi Gary,
You've got me there! Those were the instructions I picked up some time
ago and they worked.
Ciao,
Ron.
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Gary ODonoghue
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 5:42 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Natural voices
Ron that's extremely helpful thank you. Can I just ask what is the
difference between the SynthName and the SynthDriver? In your example,
you've got the AT&T Synth using the MSSapi driver -- I thought AT&T was
an engine in itself? Sorry if my thinking is a bit confused on this,
just want to get the various elelemtns straight in my mind.
Gary O'Donoghue, BBC Political Correspondent
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-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Ronald Colombo
Sent: 27 July 2004 16:08
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Natural voices=20
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=3Deloq
Synth1LongName=3DEloquence for JAWS
Synth1Driver=3Deloq
SynthXName=3DAT&T
SynthXLongName=3DAT&T Natural Voices
SynthXDriver=3Dmssapi
SynthYName=3DNoSpeech
SynthYLongName=3DNo Speech
SynthYDriver=3Dnospeech
------------
Just a note here about the "SynthXName=3DAT&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=3D" 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=3DMSSAPI" -- 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=3Ddectalk
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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