RE: routing jaws to particular sound card
- From: Bruce Toews <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:55:13 -0600 (CST)
Why not concur with the notion that there are choices out there and
whatever choice one prefers is the smart thing to go with, as different
people have different requirements and priorities?
Bruce
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Cy wrote:
> I suppose if you were doing intensive graphics work such as some games
> or perhaps some real number crunching as in CAD (Computer Assisted
> Design) you might notice some degradation from the speech synthesis
> requirements but with processor speeds in the 2 ghz neighborhood it is
> extremely unlikely.
> I would definitely concur with the choice of a second sound card over a
> $600 hardware device.
> Cy, the Ancietn Okie... a
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of John Miller
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 7:57 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: routing jaws to particular sound card
>
>
> I don't even notice it if it hurts performance at all here.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Toews" <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 8:53 AM
> Subject: Re: routing jaws to particular sound card
>
>
>> Thank goodness we have the choice. In my view, the less processor
>> power being eaten up with synthetic speech, the better.
>>
>> Bruce
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>> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, John Miller wrote:
>>
>>> second sound card is a lot cheaper though. as much as I like the
>>> sound of
>>> a
>>> dectalk, when I have the choice of a second sound card for $30 or the
>>> dectalk for $650, and really it isn't that much better to make it
> worth
>>> it, I'll opt for the second sound card.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Bruce Toews" <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 12:31 AM
>>> Subject: Re: routing jaws to particular sound card
>>>
>>>
>>>> I took it one step further and went for the hardware synthesizer.
>>>> For
>>>> me,
>>>> a hardware synth is the only way to go.
>>>>
>>>> Bruce
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>>>> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Ray Foret Jr. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That's quite correct. Furthermore, if you're like me, and you will
>
>>>>> be watching your DVD collection through your computer and the card
>>>>> with which you will be playing back your sound is rendering that
>>>>> sound as a 5.1 channel
>>>>> sound track which is then routed to your primary home theater
> system,
>>>>> the
>>>>> last thing you want is JAWS coming through that card.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>
>>>>> The Constantly BAREFOOTED Ray
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>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Bill Powers" <powersradio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 9:47 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: routing jaws to particular sound card
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Jack,
>>>>>
>>>>> Some people want to have greater control of JAWS while they run
>>>>> music
>>>>> on
>>>>> or
>>>>> other sound on the computer. With only one sound card, you can't
>>>>> control
>>>>> JAWS separately from, say, listening to an MP3 or WAV file on your
>>>>> computer;
>>>>> whatever volume each is at is not changeable without changing the
>>>>> relative
>>>>> volume of both. The solution is to have a separate sound card for
> JAWS
>>>>> and
>>>>> other sources.
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope soon to set up my computer to do something similar, except I
>>>>> want
>>>>> to
>>>>> go one step further. I want JAWS and all of the Windows sounds and
> JAWS
>>>>> on
>>>>> one card (preferably my onboard card so I can take out the Sound
>>>>> Blaster
>>>>> Live Value card and replace with a better one) and then I can have
> just
>>>>> music on the better card. In this way if I feed audio from my
> computer
>>>>> through my mixer to a DAT or to my outboard CD burner, it won't
> ever
>>>>> run
>>>>> the
>>>>> risk of containing Windows sounds in the audio mix.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill Powers
>>>>>
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