[stylist] Magic and Zoomtext, both can talk RE: more about Does anyone use MAGIC orhave experiencewith it?

Sat Mar 24 21:00:09 UTC 2012

I do not know if I have the speech aspect or not.
Where would I look to find it.
I am still learning day by day - right now, if I want to have a voice read 
to me, I turn on JAWS. And, the other thing I can do is use my scanner and 
have Kurzweil read it once I have scanned it with Kurzweil.
I have miles to go before I sleep!  lol

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 1:02 PM
Subject: [stylist] Magic and Zoomtext,both can talk RE: more about Does 
anyone use MAGIC orhave experiencewith it?

> Lynda
>
> Do you have the version of zoomtext that has speech? Zoomtext's choices of
> voices is a good one; they have a much better sounding voice than jaws 
> does.
>
> Lynda if you are not using the voice feature, then hey lady you are  not
> using the full power of Zoomtext! (you can turn on and off where it is 
> that
> you want it to read too you. Boy, I've seen some eye ball it to where they
> want to be, then and only then turn on the doc reader and set back and let
> the program do the work!
>
> So just curious.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Lynda Lambert
> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 9:43 AM
> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [stylist] more about Does anyone use MAGIC or have
> experiencewith it?
>
> Robert after  reading this you refreshed my memory. I had it backwards.
> I had asked for Magic because I liked it better when I used it at the 
> rehab
> center. The tech people there had told me it worked best with JAWS and 
> that
> it was made to go with it - NOW that I think about it again after over 
> four
> years. And, my counselor gave me ZoomText instead and said it worked just
> fine with JAWS...and so that it what I ended up with and learned to use on
> my own.  Lynda
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
> To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 10:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [stylist] more about Does anyone use MAGIC or have
> experiencewith it?
>
>
>> EVE and Lynda and others:
>> (As one work-around I sent Eve an email with "S&S" in the body of the
>> message)
>>
>> Otherwise:
>> Magic is a sister program to JAWS, they are created by the same
>> software company, Freedom Scientific; they do work perfectly together.
>> Magic does have a stripped down version of JAWS in it that can be turned
> on or off.
>> First question I would have is- does the voice work in other
>> windows/programs during the time that the "S&S" document is up? Or, is
>> the voice not working anywhere?
>>
>> (Tell me, what word processor are you trying to use? And does Magic
>> work when you are pulling up other documents?)
>>
>> A second question is- (and this one would be totally urrevalant, if
>> the voice is working elsewhere And Eve, I don't want to insult your
>> intelligence, you may know this keystroke) Eve do you know the
>> keystroke to turn the voice on- to make sure that it is?
>>
>> There again, with all of the above said, I'm thinking it is probably a
>> computer problem that is at the bottom of all these headaches that Eve
>> is experiencing.
>>
>> (One possible work around is- if this is a problem because your
>> computer is trying to use Word  or whatever your word processor is, we
>> could send you a text document and once you get the email, say the
>> attachment  somewhere where you can find it, then open Notepad which
>> is a text reader and maybe this combo will work (that Magic's voice
>> will not get clobbered). (Does Magi also give you freedom cientific's
>> FSEdit? I mentioned this one before, JAWS another FS product has it in
>> the program menu of JAWS to be used by the JAWS program owner [a good
>> word processor].)
>>
>>
>> So eve if you want to try the text option, tell me direct and I'll
>> convert it and send it to your email address.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>> On Behalf Of Lynda Lambert
>> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 6:17 AM
>> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Does anyone use MAGIC or have experience with it?
>>
>> Eve,
>> When I was at the rehab center in Pittsburgh, I had chosen Magic as
>> the program I wanted. Then, later my counselor did not get it for me,
>> but instead they got me ZoomText. They said that Magic did not work
>> well with JAWS. Maybe that is the problem?
>> Lynda
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Eve Sanchez" <3rdeyeonly at gmail.com>
>> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 12:38 AM
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Does anyone use MAGIC or have experience with it?
>>
>>
>>> Seriously Bridget, it is likely my computer. It wasn't even built in
>>> this century and is full of viruses. It always does strange things
>>> and then later goes back to normal. Like last night I could not use
>>> any arrrow keys.
>>> This morning I was unable to enter any comments on Facebook. I would
>>> push ENTER and it would open a link that had nothing to do with where
>>> I
>> was.
>>> Often people here have seen my CAPS lock on when it is never pushed.
>>> It is crap, but it is all I have. And I would never say that MAGIC is
>>> a watered down version of JAWS. If anything I would say it is the
>>> other
>> way around.
>>> Eve
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Bridgit Pollpeter
>>> <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Stylist,
>>>>
>>>> I have a Slate & Style reader who is having problems with MAGIC
>>>> reading the current Slate & Style issue with the screen-reading
>>>> portion of the software. From what I understand, the document opens,
>>>> but it does not read any of the text. Does anyone know what the
>>>> issue could be, or have suggestions of things to try to make it
>>>> work? I only have experience with JAWS, but from what I've always
>>>> been told, a MS Word doc shouldn't be a problem for most
>>>> screenreaders. I'd appreciate any suggestions here.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
>>>> Read my blog at:
>>>> http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
>>>>
>>>> "History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
>>>> The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan
>>>>
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