Alan, I wish there was a way to make jfw to quit sending those index
markers at the end of each line.
At 12:39 PM 6/4/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Jeff and Dan,
>
>Just a stab in the dark. But, could the strange behaviour you describe be
>caused by the synthesizer's indexing count. Synthesizers, as far as I
>understand it, have a word in, word out count in which they must encounter a
>punctuation symbol. A comma or a full stop etc. If such a symbol is not
>encountered the synthesizer may stop speaking in the way you describe. In
>JAWS for DOS H.J. provided a table of synthesizers and their input, output
>indexing ranges. One could also alter these default levels by using a
>/INDEX-= switch in the command line when starting JAWS for DOS but I have
>not seen anything
>of the sort in JFW. Perhaps H.J. could be persuaded to issue a number of
>switches to assist users in running JFW and their synthexizers more
>effectively, if this is indeed at the route of the problem you are
>experiencing. I could let you have a copy of the original table as provided
>by H.J. but I fear this would be of little use since JFW does not appear to
>support such switches anyway, and indeed, newer synthesizer drivers may have
>altered these values also.
>
>Using Say All By Line sends an index marker to the synthesizer at the end of
>each line, thus, causing the pauses that frustrate so many of us.
>
>Allan
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Dan roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 4:30 AM
>Subject: Re: SayAll By Sentence?
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>Dan,
>
>I am using the "sentence" mode in JFW 3.30.25 and have also
>experienced the problem of JFW simply stopping in the middle of text
>during say-all reading. It does not always happen and it is not
>consistent, but I have observed it. I have not yet let HJ know about
>it, so if you do, please let us know what you learn from them about
>this.
>
>I have not experienced the other problems that you mentioned -- or at
>least, I've not noticed them.
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