The hybrid solution for me is to go paragraph by paragraph with control-down arrow. It usually enables me to absorb a manageable amount of information and keeps me relatively anchored. The JAWS cursor stays at the start of the paragraph, so finding a word or phrase can take a moment, but it's a minor inconvenience when reading long text.
-----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Soronel Haetir via Jfw Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 12:35 PM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Cc: Soronel Haetir Subject: Re: Reading long documents - Two questions on voices With material I really need to understand and that I might need to take notes for I simply don't use say all. I will instead use line by navigation for that sort of reading. It is way slower than say all but I find that with say all the programs idea of cursor position gets separated from where jaws has read to so that if I interrupt speech I then have to work to find the spot that I was just listening to. With line by line navigation that simply isn't a problem. On 5/7/15, Rahul Bajaj via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ali: > > Being a law student, I can totally identify with your concerns. While > I don't have any satisfactory responses, I guess one good remedy in > this case could be altering the 'say all' settings in such a way as to > ensure that JAWS pauses after whatever interval you deem fit. Also, > can you let me know what voice you are using to make it sound more > human? One problem which I sometimes face is that I am unable to > recollect what I have read after reading long chunks of text at one > go. > > > > On 07/05/2015, Ali Abdolrahmani via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> I am a PhD student. I have to read many long papers and text books. >> When I read technical papers, I have the following concerns and I >> would like to know if any of members have suggestions or solutions: >> 1. I use sentence by sentence reading command of Jaws to be able to >> capture as much as I read while reading. I pause between sentences and >> sometimes take notes. My problem is when the cursor goes to the next >> paragraph, I don't have any idea that the paragraph has changed. >> Understanding the change in paragraph helps when you like to organize >> your mind about the flow of concepts. Is there any solutions or >> workarounds that we can receive an audio feedback when the cursor goes >> to next paragraph? >> >> 2. Second, for long and complex technical papers, I use expressive >> voices to sound to me more naturally and not make me tired. My problem >> is that I need to slow down the speed of the voice to be able to >> follow the complex structure of my papers. I wish I could change the >> pause length between words and after punctuations instead of slowing >> down the entire reading. Slowing down the entire reading makes me >> tired after some while. Is there any high quality synthesizer >> alternative voices that we can do this? I hope I could express what I >> mean well enough for folks. >> >> Regards >> Ali >> >> >> -- >> Best Regards >> Ali Abdolrahmani >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Jfw mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com >> > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > -- Soronel Haetir [email protected] _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
