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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