Re: [JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence

2018-06-25 Thread Dennis Long
I have no plans on switching to anything else. -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Loy Green Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 12:42 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence I have tried

Re: [JAWS-Users] interesting thoughts/finding about CPU speeds, temperature and JAWS

2018-06-25 Thread Dennis Long
Do you have a link for it? -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Valiant8086 Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 7:54 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] interesting thoughts/finding about CPU speeds, tempe

Re: [JAWS-Users] interesting thoughts/finding about CPU speeds, temperature and JAWS

2018-06-25 Thread Valiant8086
Hi. Try putting it back on balanced. You don't have a battery do you? there's no battery icon? If you do have such an icon, you should be able to press space on the icon in the system tray and you'll have a left right slider you can use to adjust the cpu's power consumption for better batter

Re: [JAWS-Users] interesting thoughts/finding about CPU speeds, temperature and JAWS

2018-06-25 Thread Valiant8086
Hi. CPUID's HW Monitor is quite screen reader friendly and will often report hdd temps along with other temps for cpu and such, also may report fan speeds, and may report power consumption. No need to get hw monitor pro, just do the free one. You should have a zip file when you download, j

Re: [JAWS-Users] Power Point request

2018-06-25 Thread Fernando Gregoire
Hi Paul, I can remember that there's a PowerPoint tutorial with JAWS in the Freedom Scientific Training web page. Unless they have updated it recently, the tutorial explains PowerPoint 2003 and 2007. However, most of hints for PowerPoint 2007 are valid for latter versions, as well as those for 200

Re: [JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence

2018-06-25 Thread Fernando Gregoire
I always used and still use Eloquence for dayly screen reading. Although other engines have more human-sounding voices, most do not change intonation correctly when there are question or exclamation marks, or change with random results. At least in Spanish, Eloquence is the only engine which clearl

Re: [JAWS-Users] interesting thoughts/finding about CPU speeds, temperature and JAWS

2018-06-25 Thread Mr. Ed
Hi JM, Refresh this old geezers brain as to where you go to change the setting you made. I am using a W10 operating system. Mr. Ed -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of JM Casey Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2018 6:32 PM To: jaws-user

Re: [JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence

2018-06-25 Thread Andy Baracco
Same here! Luv Eloquence! Andy - Original Message - From: "Dennis Long" To: Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 8:54 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence I have never been impressed by the new better voices. I used them to try and quickly returned to eloquence. -Original

Re: [JAWS-Users] Deactivating an Authorization on a Computer to Transfer to Another Computer

2018-06-25 Thread Steve
I don't think that will deactivate a computer. I'm not sure the ability to de-activate an existing authorization ever works now, so if you start running out of authorizations, you have to do what Valiant suggests. - Original Message - From: "Valiant8086" To: Sent: Saturday, June 2

Re: [JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence

2018-06-25 Thread JM Casey
That's really sweet. I don't think I really need that much; not a gamer or avideo editor -- but I wouldn't say no to that, either. -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List On Behalf Of Orlando Enrique Fiol Sent: June 25, 2018 2:20 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS

Re: [JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence

2018-06-25 Thread Orlando Enrique Fiol
I was able to upgrade my RAM cheaply because my system has eight slots and only three were being used. I got four 8-gig chips for around $200. Orlando Enrique Fiol For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/

Re: [JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence

2018-06-25 Thread JM Casey
You're right that people don't talk that way. It's why the Vocalizer voices sound really bad if you jack them up to even forty percent. They are indeed very human sounding. However, my reasoning is that a speech synthesiser is a tool, not a person, and the better it works at fast rates, the faster

Re: [JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence

2018-06-25 Thread JM Casey
Dectalk sounded pretty good! Especially considering that synth goes all the way back to the early/mid 80s and hardly changed at all. I never had any screen-reader use it though; just the Kurzeil 1000 product back in the late 90s. Wow, that's a lot of ram. I was thinking an upgrade to 16 GB might a

Re: [JAWS-Users] vocalizer voices

2018-06-25 Thread JM Casey
I was using Daniel Premium. Very nice human sound at slow (comparatively) speech rates. Not so much at fast ones. The Tom one sounds a bit nasal to me and in any case I prefer the British voices, though I use the American English Eloquence because the Brit one sounds ridiculous. I find I always ha

[JAWS-Users] Power Point request

2018-06-25 Thread Paul Mugambi
Hello Listers, who can show me how to make and read a power point presentation using Jaws 2018 windows 10 on lenovo laptop? -- my Whats app number is +254 792 746 642 Secretary People With Disability ACT 2018 www.abilitysounds.blogspot.com Disability Activist of the year 2015 award: https://yo

Re: [JAWS-Users] interesting thoughts/finding about CPU speeds, temperature and JAWS

2018-06-25 Thread JM Casey
Hey Steve. Thanks for your thoughts on this. I appreciate it. The utility can be found, if you're curious, at: http://www.resplendence.com/downloads The temperature thing is quite strange, because I also thought the spike in temperature rather drastic. Thing is, my fans were also filthy. Today my

Re: [JAWS-Users] interesting thoughts/finding about CPU speeds, temperature and JAWS

2018-06-25 Thread Steve
J.M., I hadn't heard of that utility before; and I'm slightly surprised that your temps went up that much. I suppose how good your cooling is depends on the type of technology you have; case design, type of cooler and number of fans. I assume you are using a desktop, I would be more concerne

[JAWS-Users] vocalizer voices

2018-06-25 Thread net bat66
it also depends on weather you install the full or compact version of the voices. they have different sampleing rates. so the full version would sound better then the compact version. i like the tom voice the best. the female voices are too basey. -Original Message- From: Orlando E

Re: [JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence

2018-06-25 Thread Orlando Enrique Fiol
I actually was loathed to give up my Dectalk Access 32, which I used with Window-eyes until a few years ago. Since migrating to Jaws, I love the Vocalizer voices for their high frequency clarity and hum-based phoneme samples. Having compared the Vocalizer voices to Voiceware, Google TTS and the

Re: [JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence

2018-06-25 Thread Loy Green
I have tried a lot of the human sounding voices, but I still come back to Eloquence. - Original Message - From: net bat66 To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 12:29 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence i dropped eloquence a long time a

Re: [JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence

2018-06-25 Thread net bat66
i dropped eloquence a long time ago. it makes me nervus and i couldn't stay on the computer for more then a hour at a time. no such problem with the human sounding voices. i don't need or want to listen to the voices at 400 words per second. grin. people don't talk this way and my computer doesn

Re: [JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence

2018-06-25 Thread JM Casey
I was quite impressed, but I think the hit on system speed and performance might not be worth the nice sound most of the time. It's not just that Eloquence is good enough; it's fast as hell! -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List On Behalf Of Dennis Long Sent: June 25, 2018 11:55 AM To:

Re: [JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence

2018-06-25 Thread JM Casey
Yeah, that does make some sense. I always kind of wondered why people really bothered with this nowadays unless they were doing serious audio processing, but I can now see that in some cases it's a sensible solution. -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List On Behalf Of net bat66 Sent: Ju

Re: [JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence

2018-06-25 Thread net bat66
the computer might run faster if you are useing a dedicated plug in e p c i sound card instead of the onboard one. when you do this the sound card does all the sound processing not the computers c p u. -Original Message- From: JM Casey Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 6:32 AM To: jaws-us

Re: [JAWS-Users] [jaws] send a facebook messenger message

2018-06-25 Thread JM Casey
Awesome. -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List On Behalf Of sandy Sent: June 25, 2018 11:52 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] [jaws] send a facebook messenger message it worked, thank you -Original Message- From: JM Casey Sent: Monday, June 25,

Re: [JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence

2018-06-25 Thread Dennis Long
I have never been impressed by the new better voices. I used them to try and quickly returned to eloquence. -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of JM Casey Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 9:33 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com

Re: [JAWS-Users] [jaws] send a facebook messenger message

2018-06-25 Thread sandy
it worked, thank you -Original Message- From: JM Casey Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 10:37 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] [jaws] send a facebook messenger message Try accessing your messages through m.facebook.com You'll find the send button easily enough

Re: [JAWS-Users] [jaws] send a facebook messenger message

2018-06-25 Thread JM Casey
Try accessing your messages through m.facebook.com You'll find the send button easily enough there. I'm not actually sure what you mean by "messenger page". The messenger is an app for mobile devices, I think. -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List On Behalf Of sandy Sent: June 25, 20

[JAWS-Users] [jaws] send a facebook messenger message

2018-06-25 Thread sandy
sometimes sighted friends send me messages through facebook messenger, but after writing a message on the messenger page, I can’t find the send button. can someone help? jaws 17, any browser For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/

[JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence

2018-06-25 Thread JM Casey
Hey guys. After some thought, I decided to switch my primary synthesiser back to Eloquence. I must say, that JAWS is now acting a lot more like the robust and response screen-reader I would expect on such a relatively fast machine. I spent the past year listening to a nice, mannered, human-soun

Re: [JAWS-Users] interesting thoughts/finding about CPU speeds, temperature and JAWS

2018-06-25 Thread JM Casey
Hey Dennis. I have three programmes on here that do this as part of their function. None of them are 100% screen-reader friendly but they work well enough. One thing I like about this WhySoSlow programme is that it can save the information in an html report that you just read afterwards. It lists

[JAWS-Users] [jaws] jaws keyboard shortcut

2018-06-25 Thread sandy
what are the jaws keystrokes to open the jaws desktop help menu on a dell laptop? jaws 17 For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/

Re: [JAWS-Users] google chrome guide

2018-06-25 Thread David Moore
Hi all! The new window just opens your website in another window. The incognito window, means that you are in a private browsing window. It is the same as private browsing. Chrome just gives it another name. Have a great one! David Moore Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Holger Fiallo Sent:

Re: [JAWS-Users] interesting thoughts/finding about CPU speeds, temperature and JAWS

2018-06-25 Thread Dennis Long
What programs are accessible that will say the temperatures of the hard drive and your processors? -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of JM Casey Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2018 7:32 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: