Hi Lou;

I exclusively use the DECTALK EXPRESS.

Eloquence seems to sometimes pronounce things better at high speed I think 
that a sound card is for computer sounds while a speech synthesizer is for 
speech.

73 De Anthony W2AJV
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: [BLIND-HAMS] help needed


> Hi Rich.
>
> I have both at work, and I installed Window-Eyes with the DEC Access 32 
> synthesizer rather than Eloquence or the Microsoft SAPI speech.  The DEC 
> Access 32 is in my opinion the best that Window-Eyes comes bundled with. 
> It's not quite as nice as the JFW Eloquence, but it isn't bad.
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
>
> At 10:56 PM 2/28/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>>Since I have them both on the same computer, its a shame that I can't make
>>window-eyes use the jfw eloquence.  I guess that would be to easy.  Are
>>there any other solutions other than dectalk or something similar?
>>Rich
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Don Bishop" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 9:28 PM
>>Subject: Re: help needed
>>
>>
>>Hi Richard,
>>
>>Yes, jfw does have the better speech quality.  One reason is that they use 
>>a
>>proprietary version of Eloquence where Window eyes uses the off-the-shelf
>>version.  So if you have the two screen readers on the same machine they
>>will actually use two separate eloquence engines as window eyes cannot
>>detect
>>the presence of the jfw eloquence engine.
>>
>>Don
>>
>>On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:17:15 -0500, Richard Fiorello wrote:
>>
>>Hi everyone;
>>I am still trying to find a new home for my p2000 cw meter.  If you know 
>>any
>>blind hams that aren't on the list who might be interested keep me in 
>>mind.
>>I'm trying to get rid of priceless clutter.
>>
>>Secondly as a totally unrelated question, has anyone here used both jfw 
>>and
>>window-eyes?  No we're not getting into the which is better battle but I
>>sent gw micro some e-mail asking how I could improve the speech quality
>>without going to a dectalk.  Jfw seems to have far superior speech.  I
>>thought that jfw used eloquence.  GW tells me that they too use eloquence.
>>If all that foolishness is correct I wonder why I'm not getting anything
>>like the same audio quality with window-eyes?
>>stumps me but lots of things do.
>>Rich
>>
>>
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