Penny,

We found that Kurzweill's built-in voice synthesizer did a better job of
speaking the screen, so when Kurzweill starts we turn JAWS off with a
script.

Allathea Joniec
Access Technology Project Manager
Free Library of Philadelphia
215 906 3973



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Penny Gray [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 8:32 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: How much is too much?
>
>
> Hello EASI people,
>
> We have been able to add some additional software to our campus
> workstations.  BEFORE I do the installs I was wondering if
> anyone would be
> able to offer some input as to whether one workstation can
> handle all the
> speech input/output software together.  Certainly, I
> understand that they
> cannot all be running at the same time, but can they all
> reside on the same
> machine?  When the software comes in we will be running
> Windows XP on 2 GHz
> machines with at least 500 MB RAM.
>
> The software's that I wish to install are:
>
> Jaws
> ZoomText Xtra level II
> Kurzweil 3000
> Kurzweil 1000
> Dragon NaturallySpeaking professional
>
> That's all.  I do have machines running Jaws, ZoomText,
> Kurzweil 3000 and
> Dragon NaturallySpeaking.  But I've had no experience adding
> Kurzweil 1000
> to the mix.
>
> Any experience out there that I should be aware of?
>
> Thanks very much in advance,
>
> Penny
>
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> Penny Gray
> Adaptive Technology Specialist
> Disability Services
> Bucks Co. Community College
> Newtown, PA 18940
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> http://www.bucks.edu/services/disability/
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> *Note: This document was edited using Dragon
> NaturallySpeaking professional
> edition version 5.0.  Please disregard any unedited misrecognitions.
>