Hi I found your comment that Dectalk Access 32 works in Windows 10 very interesting. So, yesterday I decided to give it a try on a Windows 10 system using JAWS 17,0.2147.
In the first attempt I used the Synthesizer and Braille Manager to add the Dectalk Acces32 voice profile. Then I restarted JAWS and used JAWSkey+control+s to change to that synthesizer. But when I did, JAWS started talking using the Eliquence voice instead of the Dectalk voice. When I pressed JAWSkey+control+s again, JAWS told me that Eliquence was the default profile. SO I uninstalled the Dectalk Access voice profile and then re-added it again. But instead of Just restarting JAWS I rebooted the system with the same results. So I went to JAWS, Options, voices and then voice adjustment and selected the Dectalk Access32 profile. When I tabbed to Person, in both the all contexts and the individual contexts all JAWS said was blank. And there wasn't any way to change the person to a Dectalk Access32 voice. So I repeated the Uninstall and re-install of the Dectalk Access32 profile. But instead of immediately changing to that profile I went to JAWS, Options, Voices and Voice adjustment and selected the Dectalk Access32 profile. And jaws started speaking using the Dectalk voice. . I changed the profile settings I wanted, then saved the profile and made it the default profile. So I had Dectalk Access32 working for the rest of the day using the dectalk voice. But when I rebooted the system this morning, JAWS did not start talking automatically with the Dectalk Access32 synthesizer as it is set to do. So I changed to the Eliquence profile and then back to Dectalk Access32. But instead of talking with the Dectalk voice, I was back to the Eliquence voices and had no way of changing them. So if you have the Dectalk Access32 running successfully with the Dectalk voice and see anything I might of missed, please let me know. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Josh Kennedy Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 06:07 To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] jaws and decTalk access32 so even though DecTalk is there DecTalk access32 is there in jaws17 you still cannot use it? On 7/28/2016 5:46 PM, Adrian Spratt wrote: > And, for the record, Dectalk USB is, or was, astoundingly expensive, but nothing like the old Dectalk from the defunct Digital Equipment Corp. > > -----Original Message----- > From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Josh Kennedy > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 2:48 PM > To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] jaws and decTalk access32 > > DecTalk sapi5 is free but doesn't sound much like original decTalk, don't know what they did to it. and decTalk access32 works fine in windows 10. > > > > On 7/28/2016 2:33 PM, Mike O'Brien wrote: >> Hi >> >> Dectalk Access32 was originally sold and serviced by Hinter Joice, >> which is now Freedom scientific. But I doubt that it is still available from them. >> There was also a version sold by GW Micro, the makers of WindowEyes. >> But JAWS quit allowing that version to be used somewhere around Jaws >> 11 or Jaws 12. >> Dectalk Access32 from Freedom Scientific works fine in Windows XP. >> But as far as I know, it will not work on any subsequent version of >> Windows, (Vista, 7 8 or 10). So I'm a little surprised that it is >> still available in JAWS 16 and 17, which cannot be used with Windows XP. >> >> There are a couple of things that claim to be Dectalk, but to me the voices >> are not Dectalk. The first one is an external synthesizer named Dectalk >> USB and the second is a software synthesizer called Dectalk Sapi5. I >> don't have any detailed information about either one of these options. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> >> From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] >> On Behalf Of Josh Kennedy >> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 12:13 >> To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com >> Subject: [JAWS-Users] jaws and decTalk access32 >> >> I see that in the synthesizer and braille manager you can choose >> decTalk >> access32 software. do you have to buy decTalk access32, and if so from >> where, and how much does it cost? >> y>> >> Josh >> >> >> >> -- >> sent from mozilla thunderbird >> >> >> 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/ > -- > sent from mozilla thunderbird > > > 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/ -- sent from mozilla thunderbird 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/
