[nfbcs] JAWS Voice for Reading Long Documents

[Curtis Chong]

Ali:

At one time, JAWS used to have Real Speak voices available. I am afraid
these days you only have Eloquence and Nuance Vocalizer with their various
voices available, of which there are quite a few to try. You could try
buying a SAPI5 synthesizer software program from a third party, but if you
do, it would be helpful first to check with Freedom Scientific Technical
Support.

I'm doing pretty well with Samantha.

Cordially,

Curtis Chong

-----Original Message-----
From: Ali Abdolrahmani [mailto:aabdolrahmani at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2014 2:16 PM
To: Curtis Chong; NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] JAWS Voice for Reading Long Documents

Thanks for your reply
I mostly use the read by sentence or paragraph feature of jaws. I just
know the Eloquence and Vocalizer voices for jaws. Do you have any
other suggestions I can try?

Also, how do you take notes when you are reading a text with jaws. Is
there any specific feature or shortcut key in jaws so that we can
simply select and put the note in some file or virtual place in order
to avoid doing context switch between the text we are reading and the
the file we are taking our notes.

Ali


On 9/14/14, Curtis Chong via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello Ali:
>
> I fear that for reading long documents, there is no perfect voice to do
> this. You just have to try several voices and settle on the one that best
> meets your needs. When I have to read long documents with JAWS, I
typically
> choose not to use the Read All function, favoring instead to press down
> arrow repeatedly simply to keep my attention focused on what I am reading.
> You may not choose to read that way, and of course that is your
> preference<smile>.
>
> Fortunately, JAWS does allow for a wide variety of voices even though it
> may
> take some time to find the perfect voice for you.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Curtis Chong
>
>
>
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Best Regards
Ali Abdolrahmani