Klango player, success!
Hey folks As the subject line says, I've figured it out so let me try to explain this the very best I can. I followed Anthony's suggestion, and this time, I kept JAWS 9.0 running while I ran the Klango Player, just to see what might happen. I have a host of SAPI 5 voices installed here so I figured at least one of them should start at some point. I ran the Klango Player DX Mode option from the menu, it actually shows up as a regular file in windows explorer which I thought was kind of interesting. Anyways, I heard the tick, tock, sound as before. I know on this particular machine that sometimes it takes a while for one of the voices to load. So I remained patient to see what happened. After waiting only about 30 to 45 seconds, I heard the Realspeak Samantha voice, which is my default SAPI synthesizer start speaking. I again followed Anthony's awesome advice and created an account from with in a program. You're presented with a menu and the first choice is log in, and the second choice is create an account. To choose an option, just press enter. To create an account, you first enter a username, and then press enter. If your username is accepted, you can then create a password. You're then asked to enter it again. If you forget it there is an option to remind you later so don't worry. After that, you're asked to enter an e-mail address so that they can send you an e-mail with your password. So I set that up and we were all good. It asks you if you'd like to enable auto-login, which I then turned on. The really interesting thing about this program is that when you're presented with a menu of choices, or you're asked to enter information, the voice is panned completely to the left, and depending on what you do, the voice pans over to the right. To conseptualize this, imagine that you open the menu bar with the alt key. Your first choice will be spoken in the left speaker. As you use your right arrow key to move along the choices, the voice moves further right, until the last choice is read only in the right speaker. This is cool because it kind of gives you an idea of where you are within the menus. Cool feature! I took a look at the media section and it contains a number of radio stations, podcasts and audio books, just as we've read before. The cool thing about the Podcasts is that you can choose to actually listen to it before you download it to your hard drive. So if you don't like something you won't waste time downloading stuff you know you don't want. Nice! Overall this player is a lot of fun! I do think they need to make things a little easier to understand on the documentation end so that people will understand *exactly* what is going to happen before they get started I.e. In other words, In the documentation, they should mention that a tick, tock sound will be heard while your SAPI 5 voices load, and that it's important to run the DX Mode option first and wait for your default SAPI 5 voice to start speaking. I think this will help new users feel a lot more comfortable. Hope that helps clear things up. Thanks again Anthony for your great advice on getting this going for me, and thanks to everyone else who responded to my original question too. Chris Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Klango player, success!
What exactly does this player do? It sounds really interesting. thanks Have a good day from Tyler C. Wood! contact details: email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: the_conman283 system details: Hp pavillion dv5220CA notebook pc AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-37 2.0 GHZ, 1024 mb DDR ram, Fujitsu 100 gb 4500 RPM Hard Drive, connecsant AC-link audio - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 2:51 PM Subject: Klango player, success! Hey folks As the subject line says, I've figured it out so let me try to explain this the very best I can. I followed Anthony's suggestion, and this time, I kept JAWS 9.0 running while I ran the Klango Player, just to see what might happen. I have a host of SAPI 5 voices installed here so I figured at least one of them should start at some point. I ran the Klango Player DX Mode option from the menu, it actually shows up as a regular file in windows explorer which I thought was kind of interesting. Anyways, I heard the tick, tock, sound as before. I know on this particular machine that sometimes it takes a while for one of the voices to load. So I remained patient to see what happened. After waiting only about 30 to 45 seconds, I heard the Realspeak Samantha voice, which is my default SAPI synthesizer start speaking. I again followed Anthony's awesome advice and created an account from with in a program. You're presented with a menu and the first choice is log in, and the second choice is create an account. To choose an option, just press enter. To create an account, you first enter a username, and then press enter. If your username is accepted, you can then create a password. You're then asked to enter it again. If you forget it there is an option to remind you later so don't worry. After that, you're asked to enter an e-mail address so that they can send you an e-mail with your password. So I set that up and we were all good. It asks you if you'd like to enable auto-login, which I then turned on. The really interesting thing about this program is that when you're presented with a menu of choices, or you're asked to enter information, the voice is panned completely to the left, and depending on what you do, the voice pans over to the right. To conseptualize this, imagine that you open the menu bar with the alt key. Your first choice will be spoken in the left speaker. As you use your right arrow key to move along the choices, the voice moves further right, until the last choice is read only in the right speaker. This is cool because it kind of gives you an idea of where you are within the menus. Cool feature! I took a look at the media section and it contains a number of radio stations, podcasts and audio books, just as we've read before. The cool thing about the Podcasts is that you can choose to actually listen to it before you download it to your hard drive. So if you don't like something you won't waste time downloading stuff you know you don't want. Nice! Overall this player is a lot of fun! I do think they need to make things a little easier to understand on the documentation end so that people will understand *exactly* what is going to happen before they get started I.e. In other words, In the documentation, they should mention that a tick, tock sound will be heard while your SAPI 5 voices load, and that it's important to run the DX Mode option first and wait for your default SAPI 5 voice to start speaking. I think this will help new users feel a lot more comfortable. Hope that helps clear things up. Thanks again Anthony for your great advice on getting this going for me, and thanks to everyone else who responded to my original question too. Chris Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.134 / Virus Database: 270.4.5/1533 - Release Date: 7/3/2008 7:19 PM Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Klango player, success!
Hi As I said in my previous message, the media section of the player includes a number of radio stations, podcast and audio books you can listen to right from within the player. It also allows you to send and receive private messages, sort of like IMs, and every user gets their own Microblog, or at least that's what it's called. You can also play a dice poker game on it, and this is only the beginning. and as I said before this is all self-voicing, no screenreader required. At 09:44 PM 7/4/2008, you wrote: What exactly does this player do? It sounds really interesting. thanks Have a good day from Tyler C. Wood! contact details: email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: the_conman283 system details: Hp pavillion dv5220CA notebook pc AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-37 2.0 GHZ, 1024 mb DDR ram, Fujitsu 100 gb 4500 RPM Hard Drive, connecsant AC-link audio - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 2:51 PM Subject: Klango player, success! Hey folks As the subject line says, I've figured it out so let me try to explain this the very best I can. I followed Anthony's suggestion, and this time, I kept JAWS 9.0 running while I ran the Klango Player, just to see what might happen. I have a host of SAPI 5 voices installed here so I figured at least one of them should start at some point. I ran the Klango Player DX Mode option from the menu, it actually shows up as a regular file in windows explorer which I thought was kind of interesting. Anyways, I heard the tick, tock, sound as before. I know on this particular machine that sometimes it takes a while for one of the voices to load. So I remained patient to see what happened. After waiting only about 30 to 45 seconds, I heard the Realspeak Samantha voice, which is my default SAPI synthesizer start speaking. I again followed Anthony's awesome advice and created an account from with in a program. You're presented with a menu and the first choice is log in, and the second choice is create an account. To choose an option, just press enter. To create an account, you first enter a username, and then press enter. If your username is accepted, you can then create a password. You're then asked to enter it again. If you forget it there is an option to remind you later so don't worry. After that, you're asked to enter an e-mail address so that they can send you an e-mail with your password. So I set that up and we were all good. It asks you if you'd like to enable auto-login, which I then turned on. The really interesting thing about this program is that when you're presented with a menu of choices, or you're asked to enter information, the voice is panned completely to the left, and depending on what you do, the voice pans over to the right. To conseptualize this, imagine that you open the menu bar with the alt key. Your first choice will be spoken in the left speaker. As you use your right arrow key to move along the choices, the voice moves further right, until the last choice is read only in the right speaker. This is cool because it kind of gives you an idea of where you are within the menus. Cool feature! I took a look at the media section and it contains a number of radio stations, podcasts and audio books, just as we've read before. The cool thing about the Podcasts is that you can choose to actually listen to it before you download it to your hard drive. So if you don't like something you won't waste time downloading stuff you know you don't want. Nice! Overall this player is a lot of fun! I do think they need to make things a little easier to understand on the documentation end so that people will understand *exactly* what is going to happen before they get started I.e. In other words, In the documentation, they should mention that a tick, tock sound will be heard while your SAPI 5 voices load, and that it's important to run the DX Mode option first and wait for your default SAPI 5 voice to start speaking. I think this will help new users feel a lot more comfortable. Hope that helps clear things up. Thanks again Anthony for your great advice on getting this going for me, and thanks to everyone else who responded to my original question too. Chris Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.134 / Virus Database: 270.4.5/1533 - Release Date: 7/3/2008 7:19 PM Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email
Re: Klango player, success!
LOL dude! This is a pretty neat little unit for sure. I needd some better SapI voices so if yall have some? The player installed and I was up and running in seconds. Mind you I have an E8400 processor going for me grin! - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 8:46 PM Subject: Re: Klango player, success! Hi As I said in my previous message, the media section of the player includes a number of radio stations, podcast and audio books you can listen to right from within the player. It also allows you to send and receive private messages, sort of like IMs, and every user gets their own Microblog, or at least that's what it's called. You can also play a dice poker game on it, and this is only the beginning. and as I said before this is all self-voicing, no screenreader required. At 09:44 PM 7/4/2008, you wrote: What exactly does this player do? It sounds really interesting. thanks Have a good day from Tyler C. Wood! contact details: email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: the_conman283 system details: Hp pavillion dv5220CA notebook pc AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-37 2.0 GHZ, 1024 mb DDR ram, Fujitsu 100 gb 4500 RPM Hard Drive, connecsant AC-link audio - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 2:51 PM Subject: Klango player, success! Hey folks As the subject line says, I've figured it out so let me try to explain this the very best I can. I followed Anthony's suggestion, and this time, I kept JAWS 9.0 running while I ran the Klango Player, just to see what might happen. I have a host of SAPI 5 voices installed here so I figured at least one of them should start at some point. I ran the Klango Player DX Mode option from the menu, it actually shows up as a regular file in windows explorer which I thought was kind of interesting. Anyways, I heard the tick, tock, sound as before. I know on this particular machine that sometimes it takes a while for one of the voices to load. So I remained patient to see what happened. After waiting only about 30 to 45 seconds, I heard the Realspeak Samantha voice, which is my default SAPI synthesizer start speaking. I again followed Anthony's awesome advice and created an account from with in a program. You're presented with a menu and the first choice is log in, and the second choice is create an account. To choose an option, just press enter. To create an account, you first enter a username, and then press enter. If your username is accepted, you can then create a password. You're then asked to enter it again. If you forget it there is an option to remind you later so don't worry. After that, you're asked to enter an e-mail address so that they can send you an e-mail with your password. So I set that up and we were all good. It asks you if you'd like to enable auto-login, which I then turned on. The really interesting thing about this program is that when you're presented with a menu of choices, or you're asked to enter information, the voice is panned completely to the left, and depending on what you do, the voice pans over to the right. To conseptualize this, imagine that you open the menu bar with the alt key. Your first choice will be spoken in the left speaker. As you use your right arrow key to move along the choices, the voice moves further right, until the last choice is read only in the right speaker. This is cool because it kind of gives you an idea of where you are within the menus. Cool feature! I took a look at the media section and it contains a number of radio stations, podcasts and audio books, just as we've read before. The cool thing about the Podcasts is that you can choose to actually listen to it before you download it to your hard drive. So if you don't like something you won't waste time downloading stuff you know you don't want. Nice! Overall this player is a lot of fun! I do think they need to make things a little easier to understand on the documentation end so that people will understand *exactly* what is going to happen before they get started I.e. In other words, In the documentation, they should mention that a tick, tock sound will be heard while your SAPI 5 voices load, and that it's important to run the DX Mode option first and wait for your default SAPI 5 voice to start speaking. I think this will help new users feel a lot more comfortable. Hope that helps clear things up. Thanks again Anthony for your great advice on getting this going for me, and thanks to everyone else who responded to my original question too. Chris Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank
