Hello Jim and others. I have to say that in my experience, when I switched to Windows Vista, I noticed my Window-Eyes 6.1 is much more sluggish when speaking. GW said they were aware of the problem and put it down to changes in Vista, but then they said that the only way to get a truly snappy response from speech is to use an external synthesizer, a comment that I did not find very helpful. Not that I am recommending NVDA, but when I use NVDA on this same PC running Vista, it is very fast and responsive to every key stroke, so I have no plan to buy and carry around an external synth.
I am not into beta testing so I haven't tried the version 7 beta. At this stage I still tolerate the slight sluggishness of Window-Eyes on Vista. JAWS users who use Vista say that this is not a problem in JAWS and they put it down to JAWS communicating directly with Eloquence, whereas Window-Eyes goes through SAPI I believe. NVDA speaks to ESpeak directly also which may also point the finger at SAPI. Anyway as someone who still has a current version of JAWS, I do believe your observation is correct and I do hope GW can fix this as on balance I do prefer Window-Eyes, and as a programmer I am sure looking forward to version 7 when it is released. Clive Lansink Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +64 9 520-4242 Mobile: +64 21 663-999 Fax: +64 21 789-150 -----Original message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Very General Observations Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:22:50 -0400 Hi John, In all the email that has gone back and forth today, I did not mean to miss accepting your apology. I accept it and will be more careful to keep my email straight. Thanks for understanding. Jim James D Homme, Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc., [EMAIL PROTECTED], 412-544-1810 "it is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis." -- Margaret Bonnano Highmark internal only: For usability and accessibility: http://highwire.highmark.com/sites/iwov/hwt093/ If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
