Hi All, For anyone who is interested, the instructions for creating Application specific synthesizer settings are below. I realize this isn't changing speed on the fly, but the nice thing is that once you create the settings for a particular program they are there every time the application is opened. I hope this information is beneficial. Suzanne Tritten, The Blind Avenger. I have slowed down speech for all of my help files by creating specific synthesizer settingsfor Winhlp32.exe. Here is how it is done. Laying the ground work 1. Open Notepad and press Alt+F followed by O to open the Open dialog box. 2. In the file named field, type C:\jfw32\jfw.ini and press enter. 3. Read this file to learn the short names for your particular synthesizer(s). Take note of the name or names. 4. Close and re-open Notepad and re-open the Open dialog box. 5. In the file named field, type C:\jfw32\settings\enu\default.jcf and press enter. 6. Press Alt+S followed by enter to open the find dialog box. 7. In the find what field, type the short name for your primary synthesizer, then press enter. 8. When JFW says your synth's short name, press escape to close the Find dialog box. 9. Use the Say Line command to confirm that JFW has placed you on a line that says the synth's short name followed by GlobalContext. 10. There is an exception to this, however. If you choose Eloquence, the first line for that section is Eloq followed by ErrorContext. I do not understand the lack of uniformity. Special note: You are in an area of the Difault.jcf file that contains settings for Global, error, keyboard, screen, PC Cursor, and JAWS Cursor voices for your synthesizer. These settings are speed, pitch, volume, punctuation, upper case, parent, voice name, and language. 10. You will begin selecting text at this point. You may safely press Shift+Pagedown once to quickly select the first portion of the text. After that you will need to select the text line by line until you have reached the language setting for the JAWS Cursor. 11. Press Control+C to copy the text to the clipboard. 12. If you are going to use only one synthesizer with the application in mind, close the default file. If you want to add another synthesizer, minimize the file. 13. Open Notepad again and paste the selected text from the default file into it. 14. If this is as far as you need to go, save and close the file. (The name I gave the file was SynthSet.txt.) If you have more information to add, save and minimize this file. Return to the Default file, press control+Home, and repeat steps six through fourteen as many times as needed. Note: If you have two or more synthesizers, but you provide settings for only one in the new JCF file, JFW will resort to the default settings if you access the application with any other synthesizer. You need one other piece of information before continuing. it is the name of the jcf file for the application whose synth settings you wish to alter. To learn this, follow these steps. 1. Open the program to which the changes are to be applied. 2. Press Insert+Q. If you hear something like, "WPWin8 settings are loaded, the application currently being used is WpWin8.exe." You will be interested in WPWin8.jcf. If JFW informs you that default settings are loaded, a JCF file will need to be created. This is simple to do. 3. Press Insert+#6 to open the Configuration Manager. 4. Make a change to a default setting. (I generally change Graphics verbosity from say all to say labeled.) 5. Save the file, close the Configuration Manager, and close the application. Now all of the initial work has been done. I realize this seems a bit lengthy, but I am pleased with the results. Creating the new synth settings Note: I have chosen the following method for performing this task, because it allows me to keep a copy of my original settings saved in a text file which can be accessed quickly should I ever want to add synth settings to any other application. 1. Open Notepad. 2. Open the synth settings file you created. 3. Press Alt+E followed by A to select the contents of the file. 4. Press Control+C to copy to the clipboard. 5. Close and re-open Notepad. 6. Open the JCF file you want to modify. 7. Press Control+End to move to the end of the file. Press Insert+Up Arrow to confirm that you are on a blank line. 8. Press Control+V to paste the synth settings information into this file. 9. You can now edit any of the settings by changing the information following equals. One note of caution. You need to be aware of the minimum and maximum number allowed for incremental settings. 10. When the changes have been made, close the file and save the changes. One final reminder: If you ever want to change settings for the program associated with this Configuration File, you will have to open the .jcf file using Notepad and manually make those changes. - Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net
