[NFBCS] Anyone Else Using Lenovo ThinkPads?

[Joe Orozco]

Hi Curtis,



I’ll take another look this evening. I hadn’t noticed anything unusual
running in the background, but it’s always worth a double check.



No, I’m using wired earbuds. Actually, when I’ve paired the laptop with my
AirPods, the experience works well. I mean, when there are pauses and
speech blackouts, for lack of a better term, it’s business as usual, but
when the speech is running fine, there’s barely any noticeable latency.



Thank you kindly for following up!



Joe



On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 11:12 AM Curtis Chong <chong.curtis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Joel:
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> Perchance, are you using Bluetooth for audio? Are you experiencing audio
> delay when invoking individual JAWS commands? I ask this as another
> possible thing for you to check. JAWS does have a setting to avoid speech
> cutoff when using Bluetooth headphones. I have this on even though I don't
> use Bluetooth headphones.
>
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>
> Cordially,
>
>
>
> Curtis Chong
>
>
>
> *From:* Curtis Chong <chong.curtis at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 24, 2024 8:59 AM
> *To:* 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> *Cc:* 'Joe Orozco' <jsorozco at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* RE: [NFBCS] Anyone Else Using Lenovo ThinkPads?
>
>
>
> Hello Joel:
>
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>
> What you might ensure on your new computer is that nothing is running that
> you don't want. On new computers that I have purchased in the past, I often
> have to pay the supplier to remove what I affectionately call bloatware.
> Lenovo is fortunately not guilty of as much bloatware as HP or Dell, but I
> suspect something is running in the background that could just as well be
> turned off. I am sorry to be so vague here, but barring additional
> information, I am not able to be more specific.
>
>
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> On my system I turn off all of the widgets, and I am not using Co-Pilot.
> Windows Phone is also not something that I care to run. Check your task
> manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESCAPE) to see what processes are actually running.
>
>
>
> Cordially,
>
>
>
> Curtis Chong
>
>
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> *From:* NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> *On Behalf Of *Joe Orozco via
> NFBCS
> *Sent:* Monday, September 23, 2024 7:43 PM
> *To:* 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> *Cc:* Joe Orozco <jsorozco at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* [NFBCS] Anyone Else Using Lenovo ThinkPads?
>
>
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> Hi,
>
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>
> My Thinkpad T470 finally started showing signs of aging last summer. I
> bought a Thinkpad Carbon last summer, and even though it has much better
> specs than my older machine, it somehow feels slower than my faithful old
> laptop. 32 GB RAM, I7 processor, plenty of SSD space, but somehow it feels
> as though JAWS is more sluggish.
>
>
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> Specifically, JAWS seems to lose speech around the Office suite. It’ll
> just stop talking around certain items in the Ribbon. Sometimes it won’t
> fully rotate around open applications while using Alt Tab. If I’m in a Word
> file, sometimes it’ll read paragraphs while using CTRL + Up and Down Arrow,
> sometimes it won’t.
>
>
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> It’s rather frustrating, because this is the machine where Outlook is
> working well.
>
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> If anyone has thoughts on what settings I might adjust, I’d be grateful.
> The machine is still too new for it to be dragging on me.
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> Kind regards,
>
>
>
> Joe
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>
>


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