Hi your situation happens when your sapi is all screwed up. Try this. Jaws control l. There will be a langwige list. Select one of the langwiges my guess would be that yours are going to be gibberish verses a langwige tag that is of use. Now try seeing if a voice is available under that new langwige you have switched to. Hth -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christopher Gilland Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 12:58 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Unusually extra-ordinarily bazaar issue with jfw9 Importance: High OK, this! is beyond bazaar! I have jfw 9. Here is what my screen shows on the about page... About JAWS JAWS: Job Access With Speech Version 9.0.519 Serial Number : *Not shown for securities reasons. Special Update Code... Locking Code: *Not shown here for Security reasons. Software Maintenance Agreement Upgrades Remaining: 0 Remote Access: Disabled Authorized using a Local ILM key. Copyright © 1993-2007 by Freedom Scientific BLV Group, LLC Portions Copyright 1985-2007 by Microsoft Corp. Portions Copyright 1995-2007 by Nuance, Inc. OK, now that we got that outta the way: on to the issue: I installed the Real Speak Solo voices. I should make it incredibly boldly clear to you all: I did so: after! key? word: after! installing jfw9. Well, now, the voices work fine in my jaws8 installation, however, if I go to jaws9, then do the insert+ctrl+s to switch synthesizers, hit s for sapi5, then hit enter to select it... I get MS Sam. Now, that's fine. That's all good, and all, and correct, however, now watch this: I do insert+j, to bring up the jaws menu. I have mine set in basics to run from the system tray, as I can't stand it taking up an unneeded alt tabbable window on my screen. Then I go to voices sub menu, and finally, global... Now, in here, if I hit alt+s, to move focus to the person combo box, I only hear just that: "Person: Combo Box." It doesxn't say Sam? or anything. The JAWS Cursor shows nothing and neither does the invisible cursor. the PC cursor deffinently doesn't. I had a sighted person look, and sure enough: nothing's there. It doesn't even show Sam. I next closed out of there by hitting escape, Then I went under control pannel, to speech... In here I changed the default voice to one of the Solo voices, then went back in. Again, no difference. Yes I did restart jaws after installing the voices. That goes without saying. I repaired the voices with no go, and even totally uninstalled, and even went into regedit and manually took out the left over registry keys/values. I went under documents and settings\user name\application data, and made sure everything there was cleared out, which it was. I reinstalled real speak solo 4, from scratch with no good. It's working flawlessly in jfw8, but not in 9. I figured maybe perhaps spyware, now ware, or even a virus, so did a nod32 scan, and an ad aware scan, and my system is clean as a button. I rebooted and then tried with no luck. Same result. I've tried this both on my Gateway DX300S desktop, and on my Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 system and in both cases was able to reproduce this problem. I haven't tried doing an alt+say all, in jaws 9, so I honestly dono... o... wait... I withdraw that! Yes I did too. That's right, I remember now, I was on the phone with my friend, showing him, and I tried, yeah, that's right... and it reverted to Sam. Yet, in jfw8, Daniel came right on almost instantly. As you can probably judge from my mail: Yes, I am an extremely! advanced pc user, as well as incredibly advanced jaws user. In fact, for a while, I used to vollenteer work for the state as a jaws instructer, so I deffinently know what I am doing. LOL! Thank you so much. Any in-sight into this would be graciously be apprecaited. 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