Rick, While I agree with you that being able to increase the level of pitch on capital letters, I have found the pitch to be useable. Sometimes the first lowercase after an uppercase letter has not returned to the lower pitch if I type it fast, but using the arrow keys to review it allows me to check for certain. When experimenting with other screen readers, I have found that setting the level two high seems to cause delays, or the pitch will be sliding down when I type the first lowercase letter after an uppercase letter. I find that annoying as well. I'm not convinced that the answer you are looking for is as perfect as you might think it is. In addition, when a percentage is given by some screen readers, you are going to find that the percentage doesn't always mean much. Some synthesizers have only so many pitch settings that can be accessed. Therefore, you can find that changing from a 20% increase to a 25% increase doesn't do anything.
Regarding Eloquence's responsiveness, I cannot type fast enough to get ahead of Eloquence. It seems to me that there may still be another issue for you, or possibly a setting that can be changed. Particularly on laptops, sound card settings can have an impact on the responsiveness of a synthesizer. It is usually recommended that you turn off any special processing that might be in effect on your sound card, including equalization. However, on my HP laptop, there is a Beats Audio mode that tailors the sound for headphones or the internal speakers, and I don't notice any change in responsiveness whether that is on or off. There can be a slower response of Window-Eyes in certain software and if certain other things are happening. This is usually not connected to a specific synthesizer, though, and I've noticed some variability with the JAWS demo and NVDA as well. Again, I'm not saying what you want isn't a good idea, but if you generally like Window-Eyes, I'm not sure that changing screen readers for the cap pitch adjustment will be as nice as you might think it is. Also, there may still be things you can do to improve Eloquence's response. Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 09:12:21 -0500, Rick Thomas via Talk wrote: >Hi Chris: OK so WindowEyes cant set the cap pitch as can other screen >readers. >This is not a good thing. >I will try the beeper script but I don't like running ever more and more vb >scripts just to have basic screen reader functions available. >I will let you know how it turns out. >Rick USA >-----Original Message----- >From: Chris Grabowski [mailto:cgrabow...@aisquared.com] >Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 8:50 AM >To: Rick Thomas; Window-Eyes Discussion List >Subject: RE: Caps Pitch Control >Hi Rick, >It is not possible to change the level of pitch for capital letters. >We offer the 60 day evaluation version so people can have access to >everything Window-eyes has to offer, including the premium synthesizers. >If the pitch change isn't enough, perhaps installing the third party cap >beeper app. >https://www.gwmicro.com/App_Central/Apps/Download/?scriptid=1216 >This makes a beep when you move across a capital letter. You can even use >a different sound if you don't like the beep the author included. >Thanks, >Chris >Window-Eyes Product Support >Ai Squared >725 Airport North Office Park >Fort Wayne, IN 46825 >(802) 362-3612 >www.aisquared.com >-----Original Message----- >From: Talk >[mailto:talk-bounces+cgrabowski=aisquared....@lists.window-eyes.com] On >Behalf Of Rick Thomas via Talk >Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 8:02 AM >To: 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' >Subject: Caps Pitch Control >Hi Steve: There should be a way to control the pitch change for capital >letters me thinks. >I havent found it in WindowEyes Settings yet though. >Some speech operations are still slightly sluggish even with Eloquence which >I have to attribute to WindowEyes itself from past experience. >That said I am asking about how to improve the speech settings including the >pitch change for capitalization - I am pretty sure that is doable but not >sure WindowEyes has a setting to do it, we will see. >I just dropped 40 bucks to get Eloquence so I hope WindowEyes takes >advantage of its feature set. >The slight lag times are annoying but not so bad that I will dump WindowEyes >all be it I am disapointed so far with WindowEyes performance with a hot >synth like Eloquence. >But, as mentioned, I will ask on list how to tweak settings to see if I can >get things working well enough to not be a constant hassle using WindowEyes. >Wish I could have given WindowEyes and Eloquence a glowing congratulations >out of the box but it is what it is. >Rick USA > >_______________________________________________ >Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author >and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. >For membership options, visit >http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/cgrabowski%40a >isquared.com. >For subscription options, visit >http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >List archives can be found at >http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >_______________________________________________ >Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author >and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. >For membership options, visit >http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/steve.jacobson% 40visi.com. >For subscription options, visit >http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >List archives can be found at >http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. 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