The speech system - SAPI5 - may be broken, in which case you won't hear any speech from Narrator. Try Control Panel, Speech Recognition, Text to Speech and check Microsoft Anna works. You'll probably need sighted help.
Alasdair On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Andre Williams <andre.williams.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe she has 2 computers running. Her primary machine and the Vista > machine she is trying to access. > Andre > ---- Original Message ----- > From: "Kimsan" <kimsans...@aol.com> > To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> > Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 8:28 AM > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Narrator in Vista > > > I am curious with out speech how are you sending these emails? > > -----Original Message----- > From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com > [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Arianna > Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 5:11 AM > To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Narrator in Vista > > No, David, that doesn't work. I think something is set up on this laptop > that is preventing me from performing anything on it. And obviously, > without speech, I'm up the creek, so to speak. > > Arianna > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David" <davidwhitehead1...@cogeco.ca> > To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> > Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 8:00 AM > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Narrator in Vista > > >> hello there; >> >> go to run, >> windows+r=run >> >> type in: >> narrator press enter. >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Arianna" <acale...@frontiernet.net> >> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> >> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 8:19 PM >> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Narrator in Vista >> >> >>>I tried that also, but it didn't work. Someone gave me this laptop with >>>vista and I have no idea if there is something preventing me from >>>functioning on the screen or not. It looks like I'll have to have someone > >>>sighted look at the screen for me and see what's going on here. >>> >>> The windows music comes on and I hear the hard drive going, but that's as > >>> far as I am able to go. >>> >>> Arianna >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Thao Vy" <thaovy...@comcast.net> >>> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> >>> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 7:56 PM >>> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Narrator in Vista >>> >>> >>>> How about windows key+ letter r to get to the run dialog, and then just >>>> type in the word narrator. Hopefully, that would work. >>>> >>>> -------------------------------------------------- >>>> From: "Kimsan" <kimsans...@aol.com> >>>> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 7:38 PM >>>> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> >>>> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Narrator in Vista >>>> >>>>> Hmm, I just tried it here on my system but maybe its different from >>>>> seven to >>>>> vista. >>>>> Maybe a vista user will reer his or her head, sorry about that. >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com >>>>> [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Arianna >>>>> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 3:32 PM >>>>> To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com >>>>> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Narrator in Vista >>>>> >>>>> That does not seem to work. >>>>> >>>>> Arianna >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Kimsan" <kimsans...@aol.com> >>>>> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> >>>>> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 1:53 PM >>>>> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Narrator in Vista >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> try windows ke plus U and then alt n. >>>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com >>>>>> [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Arianna >>>>>> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 10:50 AM >>>>>> To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com >>>>>> Subject: [Blind-Computing] Narrator in Vista >>>>>> >>>>>> Is there a keystroke to start Narrator in Windows vista? I need to >>>>>> have >>>>>> it >>>>>> running to install Jaws. >>>>>> >>>>>> Arianna >>>>>> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >>>>>> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >>>>>> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >>>>> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >>>>> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >>>> >>>> >>>> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >>>> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >>> >>> >>> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >>> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> >> >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > -- Alasdair King For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
