Hi Dave,
I *definitely* have MS speech working in both JFW3.2 and 3.3. There is no
doubt. It's not Eloquence. The voices used are both the same for 3.2 and
3.3.
--
Carol Pearson
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At 09:34 09/05/99 -0400, David Maynard wrote:
>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
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>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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