Yup thanks Valiant. Works like a charm. Danielle On 7/26/14, valiant8086 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > Ok I'm a pretty expert jaws user, I'd like to lay this out. > To mute speech, press, depending on keyboard layout, caps lock space, > or, if desktop layout insert+space. Once you heard the click noise, > press s. This turns speech off. > > On my lenovo Yoga 2 pro tablet laptop thingy, that takes less than a > second to accomplish. caps lock space, then s turns it off. pressing > that again turns it on just as quickly as it was turned off. On slower > computers it may take a couple of seconds for speech to restart when > toggling it back on. This actually unloads the synthesizer, so if you > use eloquence and someone crashes it, you can often use this to quickly > recover, provided the crash didn't drag jaws down with it. > > Secondly, with later versions of jaws that use the settings center > instead of the configuration manager, setting jaws to sleep for specific > applications is ridiculously easy. > > Open the game and press insert+6 (same regardless of keyboard layout). > Depending on whether jaws had a configuration file for this game already > it may ask you what you'd like to call the new configuration file. If it > does, just hit enter to accept what it suggested by default. Now you'll > be in the settings center,, focused on an edit box. in that edit box, > type "sleep" without the quotes. Now down arrow until you hear sleep > mode disable. Press space till it says enable. If you really want too > you can space again to make it unload the synthesizer as well, but this > usually is not a good idea if you have a slower computer it will take a > while to get speech back once focus leaves the game, plus, usually, the > speech synthesizer itself doesn't do anything that would actually > interfere with game play, that includes the fact that when jaws is > sleeping, it's not sending stuff to the synthesizer to be spoken, so the > synthesizer sits idle, which is as good as using no resources of your > machine right? > > So to summarize, with our Traders of Known Space game, I can launch the > game, and while sitting in the game press insert+6. It asks what I'd > like to call the configuration, I press enter to accept what's already > suggested. Then I type sleep, down arrow twice, press space once, tab to > the ok button and hit enter. That's all. Takes less time to do it now > that I know how to do it so well than it does to describe it. What's > more, if I open Traders of Known Space but I need jaws to speak while in > the game for some reason, I can repeat the exact same steps to bring > jaws out of sleep mode for this application, save in that situation, I > would never need to press enter at first to accept a suggested > configuration file name, as if it's sleeping, it obviously has a > configuration file. > Cheers, Sent with thunderbird 17.0.8 portableOn 7/25/2014 4:54 PM, Nicol > wrote: >> Hi tom >> Well, in jaws15 you press alt plus windows key plus s to mute the speech >> but >> I don't know if that will remove the keyboard hook while playing games. >> I know for sure it mutes speech until you switch focus to another >> application. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Gamers [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas >> Ward >> Sent: 25 July 2014 12:36 PM >> To: Gamers Discussion list >> Subject: [Audyssey] Screen Readers and Games was the Blind Swordsman >> >> Hi Dark, >> >> That's a good question, and I'm not sure I'm the right person to ask. >> I rarely use Jaws any more myself. That said, I do know in the versions >> of >> Jaws I've used I can't just flick speech on and off the way I can with >> NVDA >> or the way you can with Supernova. At least, that has been my experience. >> there may be a way to do what you want to do, but I'm just not familiar >> with >> any current Jaws releases to give you an answer without downloading the >> Jaws >> demo, installing it, and playing around with it to find out if what you >> are >> asking is possible or not. In NVDA one can press insert+s until it >> disables >> speech or enables speech which is quick and easy. >> >> Cheers! >> >> >> >> --- >> This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! 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