That's precisely why those voices were provided. They were never intended to replace Eloquence, but to supplement it. Bruce On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:31:18 -0500, "Alex Midence" <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx> said: > It's not as responsive as Eloquence. There is a noticeable difference. > I > use RealSpeak solo direct for reading long passages of text such as > books, > articles, or pdf's. If I'm doing general navigation or word processing > or, > if I need to get through a long document fast, I use Eloquence. The > realspeak voices sound pretty horrible to me when they're sped up unlike > eloquence which isn't trying to sound natural. I haven't tried doing > this > in Jaws 10 but, I think you can still get Jaws to only activate realspeak > solo direct voices during Say All and use eloquence for all the rest. I > use > multiple languages a lot so, this feature isn't something I'd use > personally > but, you might look into it. Another thing you might do is look into > using > an external sound card for your screen reader. I've heard that using an > external speech synthesizer can boost your responsiveness and the same > may > be true if you use the reaspeak voices this way. > > > > Best, > > Alex > > > > > > > > From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf > Of p.wildcat1234@xxxxxxxxx > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 11:34 AM > To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: real speak solo direct: > > > > Hi list this is kenny. How responsive is real speak solo direct? Is it > more > responsive than elequence? > -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx