[Trainer-Talk] JAWS and Perky Duck

[Marianne Denning]

It definitely helps. My students who will be using yet will also have a braille display connected so that should be very helpful.

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> On Jan 29, 2021, at 9:13 PM, humberto_avila.it104--- via Trainer-Talk <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Thanks for reaching out with your questions. I have used Perky Duck quite a bit, and, unfortunately, no, there's not a way I can think of to change the settings in JAWS to read the contractions or letter instead of the dot combinations. It will say some contractions, like T H E sign, O U sign, but as far as, say, saying the whole word or the contraction as a word like "the" I haven't found a way to do it anywhere in the program or in the JAWS scripts. 
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> Perky Duck is more of a "braillewriter" sort of program where one can braille freely anything (like a Perkins Brailler, only digitally) so it does not translate to and from Braille unless you install Duxbury Braille Translator which costs big bucks. 😊  That app is just like Perky Duck but with all the bells and whistles that Braillists use to translate. 
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> Hope this helped a bit. Have an awesome weekend.
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> Humberto
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> Subject: [Trainer-Talk] JAWS and Perky Duck
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> I have the latest versions of JAWS and Perky Duck. Is there a way to change settings so JAWS speaks the contraction instead of the letters? 
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