I'm just resending one of my previous messages but with some added findings which may be related as a whole:
------ Downloaded the 7.5 beta. I just noticed something peculiar to me. I was doing a search on bookshare.org. While at the very top of the page (with browse mode loaded), bringing up the list of links with insert-tab takes about two seconds for speech to return. That's more than slow enough. However, this isn't the slowest. When I'm at the very bottom of the page (from within browse mode), it takes twice as long for speech to return when bringing up the list of links. That's right. It takes about four seconds to get some speech feedback while at the bottom of the page, and again, about a full two seconds when at the top. Does anyone know what's going on here? Just curious. I'm using Vista 32 Business edition on a Dell Core 2 Duo 2.1Ghz with 3 gigs of ram. I was definitely hoping for a speed improvement with WE'S responsiveness, but thus far, I haven't seen it anywhere at all. Thanks for your feedback, and as a long time WE user since about 1990, my comments are only meant to be constructive with the goal of crushing the competition to truly be the best screen reader out there anywhere. Another thing I found on the bookshare site and on the www.buycheapr.com site is that the mouse search feature with control+shift+f is also quite sluggish. Pretty slow. What's interesting is that, the time length for the results to be displayed when this hotkey is pressed is random. Let me briefly illustrate. I'm in browse mode. I hit the hotkey, and the count down is on. 1, 2 seconds. Then I close the box. I repeat the process, and now it takes about four seconds. I enter the hotkey again, and it still takes about four seconds. I do it again, and this time, it takes about two seconds for the speech to begin. Neither time had I scrolled down the page or moved down the page from within browse mode with the up/down arrows between hotkey presses. This happens both at the top and at the very bottom of the page. Actually, it occurs on any web page anywhere on the page. Another area WE is very inconsistent on reading is when I use the page up/down keys to read the previous and next lines of text. It's slow slow slow, and sometimes, it's slower than even that. I'm using the WE Eloquence synth. Haven't tested it with the WE Dectalk, but it's probably the same thing. Even in selecting whole lines of text within this email, using outlook 2007, WE is extremely slow in giving feedback. It's really terrible and needs much improvement. Seriously. Thanks again, Andre 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. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
