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[Tony Baechler]

Hi, all might not be lost.  I know that most if not all screen 
readers reset the synthesizer.  Vocal-eyes does also in 
DOS.  However, there might be a way to set JFW to not reset it.  I 
don't know how.  I've seen cases where you can tell it to never reset 
the synthesizer.  Another option is to set it to use a totally 
different synth besides DEC-Talk.  That way it ignores commands sent 
to it.  You get weird characters in your speech output but it might 
work.  I've tried setting it to the Echo before just for 
experimentation.  You could instead use Litetalk since it supports 
indexing.  If it was DOS, I would say to use the DEC-Talk PC drivers 
or somehow install software to emulate a different port but that 
isn't good in Windows, especially XP.

At 03:21 AM 3/3/2006, you wrote:
>That's a great idea, but JFW, at least 4.02, doesn't support the Val voice,
>just the nine standard DECtalk voices.  And I think even if I could come up
>with a way to write to the serial port and send the commands, JFW resets the
>synth every so often so the commands wouldn't be effective for very long if
>at all.  Bummer.
>Jayson.