eloquence and viavoice affected

  • From: "Vic Llanes" <v.llanes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:52:46 -0500

Just out of curiosity, I check if this problem would also affect kurzweil 
using via-voice. It did. Kurzweil
just exited then an error message came out when it tried reading the word.

Patch anyone?

Vic

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reinhard Stebner" <reinhard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Jack Lowe" <akronjack1982@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: Bug in eloquence for JAWS, hhope this helps a few people


I just say it my self using c then a then e and then the rst of the word,
it crahsed my machine aswell, running jaws pro 6.0 and win xp

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Jack Lowe wrote:

> Chris,
>
> Did you experience this for yourself?  Or just take the word of someone 
> who told
> you that it can be done.  The idea that Jaws can be made to crash by 
> reversing
> two vowels is beyond ridiculous.
> I tried it and nothing happened.  Unless it only works in certain 
> situations,
> like live chat.  Sounds like a hoax to me.  You can't crash Jaws with 
> text.
> It's ludicrous.  Jack
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 2:49 AM
> Subject: Bug in eloquence for JAWS, hhope this helps a few people
>
>
> Hi all
>
> Recently I found out that if someone types the word, "seasure", but
> reverses the A, and the E, JAWS will crash.  I was on the Zone, a popular
> game and chat site and some people were talking about it and some people
> were even doing it to be mean, and crash some people's JAWS. I should 
> point
> out that Eloquence seems to be the only synth that has this bug, yet
> another reason why I absolutely love my dectalk. It's immune to this type
> of thing. I do hope FS comes out with a fix for this sometime, because if
> you're going to have people who can exploit the bug, people's JAWS will
> keep crashing and it's really going to be annoying.  I just thought I 
> would
> be a good guy and let some folks know why this was happening, if it was at 
> all.
> The only fixes right now are use a hardware synth, or just set up a hotkey
> and if it crashes, just keep restarting it. and if you have someone on msn
> who thinks it's cute to do that, block them or something. lol
> Hope this helps a few people.
>
>
>
>
>
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