Hi Carol;
Since you have MS speech
working in both 3.2 and 3.3 I will address my question to you. Some have
suggested that what you are hearing in 3.2 is really the synthesizer
defaulting to eloquence . Are the voices in MS speech
the same in 3.2 and 3.3?? Are the voices the same in 3.2 for MS speech
and eloquence??
Dave
At 12:29 PM 5/9/99 +0100 Carol Pearson Wrote:
Hi all,
OK! I followed Dave's instructions to the letter and now have MS speech
working in both JFW32 and JFW33. (Thanks also to Josh for your instructions.)
It sounds promising, but I must agree with those who consider it "not quite
there yet".
I notice a fair delay (a few seconds) when switching to MS speech and also
a slight stutter. In addition, when I loaded Eudora it missed out a little
of the opening message. (I had JAWS User Verbosity set to "Beginner Level".)
Is this the kind of response I should expect, that others are getting?
--
Carol Pearson
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At 23:37 08/05/99 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello to all,
> As there has been a great many of messages lately concerning ms-speech
>and it's working with 3.2 being a fluke or not here's my independent
>test.
> First of all, my thanks to Josh for starting all of us out on this
>track, I personally have loved every minute of it.
> Before you begin you will need both the microsoft text to speech engine
>and spchapi.exe. Note, ms-speech, filename that I used, ms-ttsl.exe is
>7.6 mb, spchapi.exe, is less than one. A list member posted the web sight
>for spchapi.exe earlier this evening, my thanks to David Ouimit for the
>web sight. The following url is taken from his message and was used to
>download spchapi.exe:
>
>http://www.e-try.com/speech.htm
>
>Next, I downloaded the microsoft text to speech engine, filename
>ms-ttsl.exe. I got this from www.microtalk.com, under their public beta
>link, then beta files, note, spchapi.exe can also be found here. Now,
>there may be other sights for getting this stuff, thees are what I used.
> Next, I downloaded 3.3. Before I continue I should let everyone know my
>system specs so as they can note for themselves that this test was
>independent. I'm running two systems networked, a compaq and an hp
>vectra. The vectra does not have any jfw on it at all, and served as the
>install platform for the 3.3 download. The compaq has 3.2.31 on it.
> Ok, so I got the files, they're on the vectra. I'll spare the network
>stuff, as it's not relevant. The first thing I did was to copy
>msspeech.jls from jfw 3.3 to jfw 3.2 folders, this is essential, this
>step must be done. Next, I copied spchapi.exe from one machine, the
>vectra, to the other, the compaq. I ran it, it installed. Next, I copied
>and ran ms-ttsl.exe, again with no errors. I then copied the following
>lines from the 3.3 jfw.ini on the vectra to the jfw.ini file for 3.2.
>Note, substitute your own synth numbers as needed.
>
>Synth4Name=MSSpeech
>Synth4LongName=Microsoft Text-to-Speech Engine
>Synth4Port=
>Synth4Driver=MSSpeech
>
>After doing all this I saved the jfw.ini file and rebooted the system. I
>loaded jfw, went to change synths, there was ms-speech, I selected it,
>and that's how I'm writing this message.
> If anyone has any questions or clarifications they'd like to see on this
>please let me know.
> I hope this helps.
>Dave.
>
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