Hi, I did notice improved responsiveness using the beta of Window-Eyes 7.0.
This was using the integrated Eloquence (SAPI Eloquence is no longer shipped
with the product). The sluggishness I talked about was in HTML documents
where it would appear Window-Eyes "chews up the processor", as speech is
extremely stubborn to the point the PC is unresponsive unless I get out of
browse mode somehow. This is under Vista Home Premium, with 1 to 2 GB of RAM
and a dual core processor running at near 2 GHZ.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Clive Lansink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 1:10 AM
Subject: Re: Very General Observations
Hello Jim and others. I have to say that in my experience, when I switched
to Windows Vista, I noticed my Window-Eyes 6.1 is much more sluggish when
speaking. GW said they were aware of the problem and put it down to changes
in Vista, but then they said that the only way to get a truly snappy
response from speech is to use an external synthesizer, a comment that I did
not find very helpful. Not that I am recommending NVDA, but when I use NVDA
on this same PC running Vista, it is very fast and responsive to every key
stroke, so I have no plan to buy and carry around an external synth.
I am not into beta testing so I haven't tried the version 7 beta. At this
stage I still tolerate the slight sluggishness of Window-Eyes on Vista.
JAWS users who use Vista say that this is not a problem in JAWS and they put
it down to JAWS communicating directly with Eloquence, whereas Window-Eyes
goes through SAPI I believe. NVDA speaks to ESpeak directly also which may
also point the finger at SAPI.
Anyway as someone who still has a current version of JAWS, I do believe your
observation is correct and I do hope GW can fix this as on balance I do
prefer Window-Eyes, and as a programmer I am sure looking forward to version
7 when it is released.
Clive Lansink
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-----Original message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Very General Observations
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:22:50 -0400
Hi John,
In all the email that has gone back and forth today, I did not mean to miss
accepting your apology. I accept it and will be more careful to keep my
email straight.
Thanks for understanding.
Jim
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