[JAWS-Users] Say All pausing between lines

[Orlando Enrique Fiol]

Hi all. I'm using the latest builds of both Jaws 2018 and Windows 10. 
Seemingly inexplicably, Say All has begun pausing between lines, even 
though I have tried it both reading by sentence and by line without 
pauses. It's almost as though whichever setting I choose, Say All 
reads with pauses.
To attempt to remedy this, I performed a repair, then tried Say All 
using the alternate user directory; it read without pauses as I 
desire. I then deleted all my settings files except for my 
pronunciation dictionary and voice profiles, to allow Jaws to 
repopulate my settings directory. AftEr this, Say All again read 
without pauses as I desire. However, after I went through the entire 
settings tree, resetting everything to my preferences, the Say All 
reading with pauses regardless of setting returned.
This forces me to ask if there is some hidden or obscure relationship 
between how Say All pauses and another setting that appears to have 
nothing to do with it. I'm inclined toward this reasoning because 
when I switch to the alternate user directory or delete my settings 
files, Say All behaves properly. Only after I configure my settings 
does the problem return. The question is: why?
I realize that as a temporary fix, I could yet again delete my 
settings and this time not change any of the defaults. But then, 
punctuation, speech verbosity and so many other settings would not be 
configured to my taste. As another possibility, I will test tomorrow 
whether this behavior is also happening on my laptop. If it is not, 
I'll try copying my settings directory from my laptop to the 
problematic desktop.
What do you all think? Has anyone ever experienced this strange Say 
All behavior of reading with line pauses regardless of setting?

Many thanks,

Orlando Enrique Fiol


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