Keynote is my favorite synthesizer and I have gone through a ridiculous amount of work to keep using it. I found a hardware one on ebay after searching for about a year and a half after I could no longer use my software keynote with JAWS in Windows XP. Just proves you can find ANYTHING on ebay if you search enough! I had to finagle the beta 32 bit keynote drivers from someone because they weren't released and put up on the humanware website for an extremely long time. The humanware rep. I talked to at Closing the Gap was basically a jerk to me when I asked about keynote drivers when XP first came out. he told me no one liked keynote and I shouldn't either. Dumb, this list proved him wrong, which I already knew since I had talked to many people who wanted keynote hardware synths to work with JAWS. Fortunately I don't remember the guy's name, and he is the only Humanware Rep. I have met that was rude. Then every time I have upgraded JAWS it has been hard to get a driver that would install to the new version. It seems like that will be solved now with it becoming an option to use it with blue tooth in version 7, which is a big releaf to me. Please, please, Pleas don't stop supporting keynote! If you ever think about it Humanware, then you should release the software version to the open source community so that people who care can work on making it available. :-) I assume the driver now on the website is now for any version of JAWS? I didn't find it before I went through a strange procedure of uninstalling JAWS 6, making a directory listing of the files in the directory just after reinstalling JAWS 6, then installing the drivers for the keynote in JAWS version 6, and finally comparing the directory listing again to see what had changed. I also made a backup of my JAWS directories so I could see what changed in the file that changed. After all that I was able to install the drivers in JAWS version 7 by hand. Only at that point did I start using JAWS 7, because my sound crackles horribly with eloquence and I don't much like it anyway. Yes, I know about the supposed fix for the crackle but it doesn't work for my computer for no known reason.
Now if only I could use my braille note or hardware keynote in Kurzweil I would be a very happy person. Is there any chance Humanware and Kurzweil Educational Systems could discuss that possibility? I wonder if the same driver that works in JAWS would work for Kurzweil if someone just knew how to get it installed and Kurzweil informed of it's existence by editing some configuration file. I also find it very odd that the keynote doesn't seem to recognize accented and other extended characters when used with JAWS. I am certain that this is a driver issue and not a hardware issue. In fact when one keynote synthesizer malfunctioned it would only yell "C cidilla" which it certainly did not get told to say by the computer, so I think it knows about those characters, but isn't being fed them by JAWS, which is very annoying. I am sure that my PCMCIA and software keynotes handled words with accented characters beautifully, and I miss that. Okay, so I am a little insane about my synthesizers. <grin> Eloquence manages to mispronounce my last name even when given a phonetic spelling, so it is also not welcome on my computers for that reason. I don't want to feel like barfing every time I hear my last name. :-) Sarah Van Oosterwijck Assistive Technology Trainer http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
