RE: jfw and sound cards
- From: Chip Orange <COrange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:00:13 -0500
Is it necessary to update the elloquence driver if you have jfw 5.0?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen J [mailto:kkj10@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 8:31 PM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: jfw and sound cards
>
>
> Below are the instructions on how to do this.
> 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=3Deloq
>
> Synth1LongName=3DEloquence for JAWS
>
> Synth1Driver=3Deloq
>
> The number doesn=92t 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=3DSB 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=3Deloq
>
> Then the port line would read:
>
> Synth3Port=3DSB Live! Wave Device
>
> The text after the =3D 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.
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
>
> On 11/18/2003 at 9:13 AM golden wrote:
>
> >hi
> >How can I install two sound cards and have it configured one
> for PC audio
> >output and the other one for JAWS speech? I want to separate
> JAWS from my
> >PC audio because I don't want to distract the class
> unnecessarily with
> >JAWS screen reader.
> >thanks so much.
> >golden
> >
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>
> Music is the stuff my dreams are made of. To me, everything else is=
> secondary.
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