Steve,
Thanks for the info. I am using MS Word but the thing that is strange is
how it acts totally normally, usually for awhile, and then starts this
behavior. Closing the file, opening it again, jumping to to where I left,
fixes the problem temporarily.
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: OT Jaws Speech Problem
> Phil,
>
> You didn't specify what application you're using to read the documents,
> and
> that is probably very important since you don't experience the problem
> everywhere on your machine. One thing to consider is the amount of RAM in
> your machine. JAWS itself is pretty resource intensive, but so are other
> applications, and if a couple of them start demanding system resources
> simultaneously and you don't have enough memory, you might get pauses like
> this. If you hear a lot of hard drive activity during the pauses, that
> may
> also indicate that you're running out of RAM. Your problem might also be
> a
> scrolling issue, and if that's the case, you may have to make adjustments
> in
> your reading application, or your display settings. You might also want
> to
> test these things on your wife's machine, but make sure you use the same
> documents or the test won't be very significant. Of course, just because
> two machines use identical hardware doesn't mean that they are similar.
> You
> may also want to consider what other programs (if any) are running in the
> background. It's conceivable that this is a video driver issue, but
> that's
> only speculation. I'm just listing things that occur to me, and they're
> in
> no particular order of importance.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 23:15
> Subject: OT Jaws Speech Problem
>
>
>>I have noticed a regular strange problem using Eloquence when reading a
>> document of a couple of pages or more. It also does the same thing with
>> the
>> Real Sound voices by the way. If reading, for example, continuously, all
>> of
>> the sudden, the speed does not slow down, but there is a pause of a
>> couple
>> of seconds between each and every paragraph. since in my novels, there
>> is
>> a
>> lot of conversation of individual characters going on, it is like reading
>> a
>> book on a jerky wagon over rutted roads. Additionally, this can happen
>> after several pages being red and edited, or proof read, or it can happen
>> as
>> soon as I begin reading and stop the reading of the text to correct a
>> sentence or word or even a letter. Then read line by line, or word by
>> word,
>> there is this 2 second pause before Eloquence speaks the character
>> letter,
>> word, or sentence in its entirety. If I close up the file, then reopen
>> it,
>> and jump to where I left off, everything is back to normal for awhile.
>> As
>> I
>> said, it doesn't seem to matter the size of the document. It does not
>> ever
>> do it in Outlook Express when reading emails, long or short, nor does
>> Eloquence and jaws seem to do this went reading menus and the like. I
>> tried
>> resetting everything in jaws to basic factory settings, then redefining
>> speed settings and all but that made no difference. I wrote Freedom
>> Scientific and they want me to call and talk to a tech support person. I
>> haven't had too good of luck doing this in the past so before I do it, I
>> thought I would ask if anybody has some ideas about what might be going
>> on.
>> We haven't tested out my wife's computer, we both use jaws 10 and XP, and
>> we
>> both have the same computer hardware, and she keeps a very long document
>> files with addresses and phone numbers and appointments for the mobile
>> vet
>> she answers the telephone for. It doesn't effect that file she accesses
>> many times a day so I don't even know where to begin. Anybody have any
>> ideas? One of my thoughts is that I have less memory, I forget just what
>> now, than my wife's machine. Her's is twice mine and I think mine is
>> only
>> a
>> half a meg. If that's the problem why doesn't it do it everywhere in
>> Jaws
>> menu structures and while reading emails? Additionally, I have magic
>> Jack
>> loaded into memory all the time, generally Outlook Express is always open
>> and ready to use, and a recording voice mail program which isn't very
>> large
>> but attaches voice mail audio recordings to any email you want to send,
>> and
>> of course, jaws is always loaded. My wife doesn't have any of those
>> programs. So could that have anything to do with it? I suppose I could
>> unload, or suspend, all of those loaded programs and see what the results
>> might be. Also, as I mentioned, it is definitely related to paragraphing
>> because at the end of each and every paragraph in MS Word, that is where
>> the
>> 2 second hesitation occurs. I'm wondering if jaws has some freaking
>> paragraph setting. You can see how little I know but being an appliance
>> operator has never bothered me.
>>
>> Phil.
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>
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