<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>One issue I have become concerned about is possible difficulties that users of DECtalk will encounter when they have certain screen readers installed. If someone can summarize the group's experience with changing synthesizers or changing screen readers, I'd appreciate knowing what sorts of problems we're up against as we test out classic SAPI DECtalk. I don't want to release something that causes people problems when they try to install DECtalk but already have some other voices installed.</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">corine<br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Alex H. <linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com><br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> DECtalk Discussions <dectalk@bluegrasspals.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sun, May 22, 2011 12:46:58 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [DECtalk] DECtalk Found a workaround for getting DECTalk Access32 working w/ JFW<br></font><br>
Hi Michael,<br><br>Funny you mention that, because when JAWS 11 came out, people started<br>complaining to FS and they didn't say anything about DECTalk being not<br>supported back then, only that they couldn't reproduce the problem<br>(yeah right). Sounds like they're becoming lazy over there, I mean<br>it's probably a five line fix in some file or other and they just<br>don't care.<br><br>The real question is if they'll keep the existing DT Access32 files<br>for future versions and just not provide any tech support for the<br>synth? That's sort of a band-aid way of doing it, but that's what<br>they'll probably do knowing FS.<br><br>Fortunately if this doesn't work, we should have a classic SAPI<br>version of DECTalk that will be functional with any screen reader that<br>can use SAPI synths, so I'm not too worried.<br><br>Alex<br><br>On 5/22/11, Michael Hansen <<a ymailto="mailto:amtk62@gmail.com"
href="mailto:amtk62@gmail.com">amtk62@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I agree 100%.<br>><br>> I talked to FS support last week, and they told me that Access 32 was<br>> not supported after JAWS 10. So they know about the problems and<br>> apparently do not want to fix them. Either that or they can't fix<br>> them.<br>><br>> On 5/21/11, Brandon Misch <<a ymailto="mailto:bmisch2002@gmail.com" href="mailto:bmisch2002@gmail.com">bmisch2002@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> would be better if fs fixed it so you wouldn't have to change the name of<br>>> eloquence.<br>>><br>>> On May 21, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Michael Hansen wrote:<br>>><br>>>> Wow, Alex! This is awesome! Great find!<br>>>><br>>>> Michael<br>>>><br>>>> On 5/20/11, Alex H. <<a ymailto="mailto:linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com"
href="mailto:linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com">linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>>>> I've found a workaround to get DECTalk Access32 working with JFW.<br>>>>><br>>>>> WARNING WARNING WARNING: This isn't complicated, but it could leave<br>>>>> you with no speech if you're not careful and set up another voice<br>>>>> profile or don't have NVDA to fall back on.<br>>>>><br>>>>> 1. You should really do this with an older version of JAWS if you have<br>>>>> any installed, or use NVDA or System Access, or even narrator to do<br>>>>> these steps to avoid conflicts.<br>>>>><br>>>>> 2. Assuming you've already tried to have Access32 set up as a voice<br>>>>> profile, just select that using insert-ctrl-s, and then the profile<br>>>>> name for DECTalk access32.<br>>>>><br>>>>> 3. Open
the start menu, Programs or All programs, Jaws 10/11/12,<br>>>>> Explore Program Files.<br>>>>><br>>>>> 4. Navigate to the Drivers\speech\eloq subdirectory.<br>>>>><br>>>>> 5. Rename eloq.jls to something else like "evil_eloq.jls"<br>>>>> Alternatively, you can simply move the file to another location.<br>>>>><br>>>>> 6. Reboot JAWS. You should now have DT access32 speech! Worked for me.<br>>>>><br>>>>> Note: I am not responsible for any outcome of this, use at your own<br>>>>> risk. However, if something doesn't work you can always just rename<br>>>>> the file back to eloq.jls and things are good again.<br>>>>><br>>>>> I haven't tested to see if the Eloquence voice profile is saved if you<br>>>>> rename it back, but I don't use eloquence anyway,
so...<br>>>>><br>>>>> Enjoy and good luck!<br>>>>><br>>>>> Alex<br>>>>>><br>>>>> _______________________________________________<br>>>>> DECtalk mailing list<br>>>>> <a ymailto="mailto:DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com" href="mailto:DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com">DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br><span>>>>> <a target="_blank" href="http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk">http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</a></span><br>>>>><br>>>> _______________________________________________<br>>>> DECtalk mailing list<br>>>> <a ymailto="mailto:DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com" href="mailto:DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com">DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br>>>> <a href="http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk"
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