Re: jaws volume
- From: "Stephen Faill" <stephen.faill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:09:43 +0100
Weinston.
This is taken from the Freedom Scientific website and should help you to set up
your soundcards.
Question:
I have two sound cards on my computer. How do I make sure JAWS uses the one I
want?
Answer:
Many JAWS users who also use music or audio production software want JAWS and
Eloquence to speak through one sound card, while using the other for their
production work. To do this, you need to edit a file called JFW.ini and install
the updated Eloquence Speech driver in the accompanying zip file.
Editing the jfw.ini file:
1. Using My Computer or Windows Explorer, browse your hard drive to the
currently running version of JAWS and find the jfw.ini file in that folder.
2. Press ENTER to open.
3. You should find some lines that read:
Synth1Name=eloq
Synth1LongName=Eloquence for JAWS
Synth1Driver=eloq
The number doesn't matter, it may be 1, 2, or 3, but it must be the same for
all entries for Eloquence.
4. Add the following line after the driver line: Synth1Port=SB Live! Wave
Device Of course, you need to make sure that the synth number matches the other
lines, so that if the Driver line read:
Sytn3Driver=eloq
Then the port line would read:
Synth3Port=SB Live! Wave Device
The text after the = sign in the Port line comes from Control Panel/Sound &
Multimedia/Audio tab It must be one of the entries that can be chosen for
Preferred
Playback device.
5. Save your changes and exit Notepad.
Now you must install the updated driver.As long as JAWS is running and speaking
through Eloquence, eloq.jls cannot be simply overwritten when unzipping
the file. You will need to switch to NoSpeech or MS SAPI to get the eloq.jls to
overwrite properly.
1. Download the file from
ftp://ftp.freedomscientific.com/users/hj/private/eloq.zip
2. Unzip the zip file into the root of the active JAWS directory where you made
the change to the jfw.ini file.
3. Restart JAWS and it should now be speaking from the sound card you wanted.
4. If not, make sure the entries are correct in the jfw.ini file and that your
sound card is indeed installed correctly. Most audio and music production
software allows you to select a sound device for it as well, so it can use one
sound card while JAWS uses another.
Hope this helps.
Stephen
----- Original Message -----
From: Weinstone
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: jaws volume
stephen,
Seams, you are using two sound cards with JAWS. May I ask you about setting
up two sound cards using JAWS?
I'm using a laptop wit built-in sound card and I have one external sound
card. I would like Jaws to use the built-in sound card while the window sound
skims will go to the external sound card.
I don't know how to do that. So, I'm hoping you could help me. Thanks in
advance.
From: Stephen Faill
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: jaws volume
one answer is to purchase a second soundcard.
i have done this and would never go back to a single soundcard as the 2
work really well enabling me to use jaws at what ever volume i want and also
all other audio and window sounds at their own level.
stephen
----- Original Message -----
From: john coley
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 1:32 PM
Subject: jaws volume
This problem has been posted before, but till now there hasn't been a
solution, the problem being that of Jaws using system volume and not having its
own.
If you're listening to audio, as I was this morning, in that instance
the main menu presentation on Jaws 8, and you turn up the volume to listen the
jaws volume relative to the volume you're hearing will be very high. It would
be very useful to be able to turn down the jaws volume so it doesn't blast out
at you when it speaks something that pops up on the screen.
John.
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