It seems like a USB problem because you say when JFW stops you can't get
portable NVDA to work, but you can still save your GoldWave stuff. So your
machine isn't frozen. You just can't get USB to function. Until you solve
it, perhaps you could install NVDA rather than trying to use it on a flash
drive, or maybe even use Narrator. This way you could at least get around
without sighted help.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Hunt" <jhun...@ptd.net>
To: <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 6:11 PM
Subject: Goldwave/JAWS Questions
Hello All,
I recently heard that Microsoft will discontinue support for Windows XP in
March of next year, 2014. With that in mind, I had asked a friend here in
my area to install Windows 7 32-bit on my Netbook. So he did, and for a
while, all had been going beautifully. I have Jaws 14 32-bit on the
netbook, using Eloquence speech. For audio editing, I used Goldwave.
Here is where I have run into a problem: I can use Goldwave fine for a
while with JAWS and my Logitech ClearChat USB headphones plugged into a
USB
port, but after a while, JAWS stops speaking. Sometimes I can get JAWS to
start speaking again by disconnecting the USB headphones, and eventually
JAWS stops speaking altogether. At that point, I cannot even get my
portable NVDA on my flash drive to start. When that happens, I ask a
sighted person to read the screen to tell me what is displayed on it. With
that information, I then save what I had been working on in Goldwave,
close
Goldwave, power-down the Netbook, and power it back up again and wait for
JAWS to start speaking.
I have noticed two interesting things: JAWS and Goldwave do not behave
this
way on the bigger, faster Dell laptop that I have, neither do they behave
strangely when using NVDA on either machine. The problem I mentioned
above
only happens when I use JAWS, Goldwave and the USB headphones on the
Netbook. So, could this be a problem in JAWS, a USB port issue on the
Netbook, or is there something I am or am not doing?
If anyone has any suggestions on what I can do to solve the problem or get
around it, please do feel free to let me know on or off list.
Thanks,
Jim
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