[DECtalk] INtro and Question

[Blake Roberts]

Hi Doris,
Welcome to the Dectalk listserv! I hope you enjoy your time here.

To answer your question about using Dectalk Access32 with Jaws 11/12...  In
May of this year, list member Alex Hall found a workaroundfor getting DT
Access32 working with Jaws. I saved his message in my inbox and am pasting
it below my name.
Blake


I've found a workaround to get DECTalk Access32 working with JFW.

WARNING WARNING WARNING: This isn't complicated, but it could leave you with
no speech if you're not careful and set up another voice profile or don't
have NVDA to fall back on.

1. You should really do this with an older version of JAWS if you have any
installed, or use NVDA or System Access, or even narrator to do these steps
to avoid conflicts.

2. Assuming you've already tried to have Access32 set up as a voice profile,
just select that using insert-ctrl-s, and then the profile name for DECTalk
access32.

3. Open the start menu, Programs or All programs, Jaws 10/11/12, Explore
Program Files.

4. Navigate to the Drivers\speech\eloq subdirectory.

5. Rename eloq.jls to something else like "evil_eloq.jls"
Alternatively, you can simply move the file to another location.

6. Reboot JAWS. You should now have DT access32 speech! Worked for me.

Note: I am not responsible for any outcome of this, use at your own risk.
However, if something doesn't work you can always just rename the file back
to eloq.jls and things are good again.

I haven't tested to see if the Eloquence voice profile is saved if you
rename it back, but I don't use eloquence anyway, so...

Enjoy and good luck!

Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
[mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Doris and Chris
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 2:49 PM
To: dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
Subject: [DECtalk] INtro and Question

Hi,

I just subscribed to this list after finding a link to it during an online
search.

I enjoy different synthesizers and synthesthizer voices. I have a special
affection for DECTalk as it was one of the first synthetic voices I came in
contact with in the form of Text Assist, the original one) that came bundled
with my creative Soundblaster card in the mid 90's even befoer I lost my
sight.

when I did lose my sight in 1998, I used Text Assist with jaws 3.0 until we
got my hardware synth shiped and until jaws 3.2 introduced eloquence.

Recent versions of jaws , that is 11.0 and 12.0 are not able to use Access
32 anymore. Is there a solution to this, that is is there a driver update
that I might be able to download somewhere?

I recently came across a sapi 5 version of Software DECTalk speech. 
This works adequately with jaws 11 and 12. I stumbled across this sapi 5
version of dectalk while doing a google searchfor something entirley
unrelated. I have since attempted to research the source of this sapi 5
version of dectalk. I was attempting to find out if this is an oficial
version of dectalk or if it is similar to the eloquence driver for the free
open source screenreader nvda. I would appreciate more information on this.
I am trying to find out if it is safe to pass on this sapi 5 version of
DECTAlk as I know several people who miss their dectalk and who would love
to use this version.

Thanks much.

Doris

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