that happens to me to and I would like to know why. It also happens to another friend of mine using said program as well.
> Hi folks. I'd like to think I'm pretty good with solving a lot of > audio-related problems, but this one's got me completely > stumped. This is going to sound completely nuts, but trust me, > this is exactly what's happening, and I'd even be willing to send > someone an audio file to proove it. Sometime yesterday, I heard > about Audacity, which is a pretty popular sound editor So being the > somewhat brave sowl I am, I downloaded and installed it and all went > very well, absolutely no problems. Then, when the program launched, > that's when the weirdness comes into play. I am currently using JAWS > 8 with an earlier version of the dec-talk access 32 software speech, > and 99.9 percent of the time it sounds absolutely beautiful. But > when I launch audacity to look around and have a play with it, there > is a slight change to the speech, and it sounds as if it is running > slightly slower, as if the voice is on a tape and is running a little > low on batteries. > I have never heard of this happening, so I figured maybe it was > just my imagination. So I switched to another software synthesizer, > namely eloquence and the effect was the same. Closing audacity had > no effect on it, and the only way to really make the speech return to > normal was to shut down, and restart JAWS. I switched over to my > dec-talk express hardware synth sso I could have a further look and I > wanted to see if it was some kind of weird sound card issue or > something. By default, the program is routed to the Microsoft sound > mmapper for both playing and recording, so I changed the program so > that it found my card, which is an SB audigy 2, or SB audigy audio > ff80, as it says in the options for most programs. So then I closed > down audacity in JAWS and I got the speech to sound normal > again. then, I launched audacity again, same deal, the speech > sounded slightly slower. W to the t to the f? So I'm stumped as to > why this is happening, and I've run out of ideas. The only other > idea I have is that Audacity might be a memory hog and is taking up a > lot of power which could cause weird stuff to happen, so I'm > wwondering if that could be it? I'd like to find out what's > happening so I can start using the program a little more. I heard a > demonstration that was given about it so i was hoping to give it a > go, but I'd like to solve this issue first. So, any ideas would be > great!!! Thanks folks. > > > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
