I myself was using RealSpeak Solo Direct for the longest time and swore I would stick with a human sounding voice.
But in my job, testing accessibility in my department, I set up a version of JAWS that was not configured, pretty much a straight out of the box installation. With all the testing, I kept elequence and have to admit, it grew on me. Now, it is the only one I prefer and have not switched back, and don't plan on it either. Like I said in my original message, I just find it odd that once I had disabled the language detect setting in JAWS 15, the issue went away, but when I did the same change in 16, the issue is still there. Which I do find pretty odd. From: "Rose Combs" <roseco...@q.com> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Date: 2015/12/08 2:48 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] JAWS 16 Language Changes That is a matter of opinion! I have tried most of them for my language, US English, and in certain circumstances they work great, for everyday use, Eloquence is still my favorite, it reads punctuation I wish, raises and lowers pitch for capitalization and after 17 years of using JAWS the cadence is something I have gotten used to hearing. I have used other voices but I go back to Eloquence and probably will do so until it disappears from the program. I hated Tom years ago, Samantha is horrible, some of the others also sound like smokers, or Grandpa in Eloquence. I use Paul from Voice ware in another screen reader and he is fine except for some mispronunciations on some words. I used Paul then I had K1000 but it never worked right with Windows 7, the voices in Open Book drive me crazy after reading with hem for an hour or more. However, Eloquence in Open Book also drives me crazy if I have to read for more than a few minutes, the cadence is not the same as with JAWS, the phrasing is off, pitch seems less stable,. I used it to read a PDF converted for a church project, 288 pages more or less and I was amused by how it pronounced bible names, annoyed by the constant higher pitch for some items, have no clue why it could change pitch in the middle of a sentence, found it very distracting to be frank. With each chapter of the book taking approximately an hour to read at a high rate of speed, I wanted to scream by the time I was finished. Unfortunately, I thought that since I had premium voices from Jaws 16, that I could remove the ones Open Book used, discovered that is not the case, but I don't think I would have been any more please by Tom or Samantha which as I recall were to two main OB choices, since the program has not been updated since about 2012, I doubt that there would be choices I'd like any better. If I were to use Vocalizer Premium voices regularly in Jaws 17, it would probably be Allison or Eva, but the few days I spent with each of them sent me back to Eloquence. Rose Combs roseco...@q.com A picture may be worth a thousand words but it takes up three times the memory! -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Flor Lynch Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 10:03 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] JAWS 16 Language Changes If you change synthesizer, you probably won't have that problem. (Vocalizer Expressive voices are now are as good as, or better than, Eloquence.) -----Original Message----- From: Bissett, Tom Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 3:28 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] JAWS 16 Language Changes I realize this doesn't help but I experience the same behaviour. I find though that this happens when I am using IE 11, I don't think it happens with other applications. I did ask this question of the list but no one else seems to have the problem. Its annoying and I hope we can find a solution. Tom Bisset -----Original Message----- >From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On >Behalf Of Daniel L. Gervais Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 10:16 AM To: List JAWS Subject: [JAWS-Users] JAWS 16 Language Changes Hello, This is actually my first time sending an email with this group. I've been encountering an issue while using JAWS 16. Everytime I press keys on my keyboared, the JAWS language changes to French. I've disabled the language detect but, for example, if I press the Alt+Tab keys, instead of JAWS saying "Alt Tab" in English, it says it in French. I had the same issue on v15 and disabling the language detect solved it on 15 but not on 16. I would appreciate any help in figuring what I'm doing differently with 16. Thanks! 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/
