Just an FYI, for me, I am not using an external keyboard or an external
soundcard like you are, and I still have loss of speech issues on both my
vista pc at home, and my xp pc at work. I agree though, WE is more
stable
under xp.
Chip
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From: Manny Gee [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 3:42 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: Los of speech with Window-Eyes--with posible work around!
Aloha to all,
I have found a work around that helps me when window eyes stops speaking
I'd like to point out that if you lose speech, sometimes Window Eyes may
not
be at fault.
windows loses sound and keyboard function at random.
This is a known issue with all windows operating systems, with no fix.
Here's my work around:
the problem:
Windows operating system has lost sound:
my first choice is to remove the connection to my usb wireless headset,
and
viola
window eyes starts talking using my external speakers, then I just replug
the usb
and my wireless is talking again.
In this case, windows was the culprit for the loss of sound.
The problem:
The wireless keyboard has stopped functioning:
I just change keyboards, and use the wired keyboard and everything is
back to normal, i.e., window eyes is speaking again.
If that does not work, I use a hot key to shutdown all three window eyes
applications
using a batch file and count to 10 and restart window eyes and again
viola window eyes is up and running.
In this case window eyes had crashed.
When I am about to run a program that I know will prevent window eyes
from
speaking
because the program seems to take all of the c-p-u, I run "sm seesaw pro
and
I isolate
window eyes to one of my 4 processors, and then I run the other program,
and
I still
can work on the computer using window eyes still speaking
I am using:
Window Eyes 7.2 (updated)
Dell xps420
windows 7
Intel quad core q6600, with 8 gigs of ram memory
Somebody made the comment that window eyes seem to crash with windows 7
more
often than with other windows operating system, and I agree.
I use window eyes on windows 7, vista, and windows xp with sp3, with all
systems up to date, and window eyes seems to be more stable with xp and
least stable with windows 7.
Good luck,
Manny
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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Los of speech with Window-Eyes
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:30:44 +0200
Raul!
In conjunction with your answer, I have a question, that often been
tickling
my mind. As far as I get it - and feel free to arrest me here - WE is
making
use of the Harddisk when puttting out speech? If so, and we take it that
the
reason why speech is lost, in certain cases, is due to excessive disk
usage
from another application (i.e through a diskdefragmentation); Would it
be
of
any benefit to install - and run - WE on a secondary drive? Even on a
laptop, for instance, will there be chances of less speech loss, if you
run
WE from a USB pendrive, since all the WE activity then would not affect
the
diskdrive of the main system? Has anyone tried this, and got any
experience
as to whether a secondary drive solution will be of any benefit at all?
OK, I do see, there will be many cases, where WE will be slow
responding,
or
even halting, which would depend on anything but the disk usage. Yet,
several of my 'slow response' issues might be in connection with
software
that tend to use the disk rather agressively; why this has been crossing
my
mind. The speech loss in browse mode - be it in Internet Explorer,
Firefox,
or even when reading Emails in Outlook Express - Well, I agree, none of
these would be due to disk usage. But that is a matter I guess you are
looking into, when the new browse mode comes around. They definately
have
been more frequent from WE7 and up.
Thanks alot!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[email protected]>
To: "GW Info Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: Los of speech with Window-Eyes
> Hello Pat, it's possible the reason you are experiencing a speech loss
> is because some other program you have running is doing something, or
> waiting on something and during this wait period, Window-Eyes is
> prevented from speaking. Sometimes programs wait for some sort of
> response from who knows where, and until this happens, other things
> don't work right. Of course it's very noticeable with Window-Eyes
> because of speech not responding. if this happened to let's say Winamp
> or Media Player, perhaps the music would stop, or would stutter. if it
> happened to the browser, perhaps no new web pages would load and it
> would appear to be frozen. This also explains why when pressing the
> power button, you get speech back for a bit as the machine is shutting
> down, because the program which was hauling the system may have been
> shut down. So until we can find out what other program you may have
> running and which may be contributing to this problem, we won't know
> what to suggest. It's annoying for sure and frustrating, but this is
> also the reason why not everyone is having the same issue as you.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> On 8/11/2010 8:04 PM, Pat Ferguson wrote:
>> I've also had this happen with Window-Eyes when IE 8 was running, and
>> I've had it happen when just in Ed Sharp, as well. Even in WordPad.
>>
>> I'm always loving Window-Eyes, no matter what. It is still loving!
>>
>> Pat Ferguson
>>
>> At 06:30 PM 8/11/2010, you wrote:
>>> I have a friend using we 7.2 and this happens fairly often when she
>>> runs internet explorer 7. She used to have ie 8, and speech loss
>>> happened with that too.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: " Sarah Baughn"
>>> <[email protected]>
>>> To: <[email protected]>; "Pat Ferguson"
>>> <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 3:39 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Los of speech with Window-Eyes
>>>
>>>
>>>> Pat, I have noticed this as well, but my issue with this only
>>>> started
>>>> with version 7.2, and I have to hit Alt backslash and the Alt f4 to
>>>> close down WinEyes, and then of course, as you stated,, enter or
>>>> space to shut it down. Then I bring it back up again and it works
>>>> fine for a while. Has anybody else noticed this?
>>>> Sarah
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Ferguson"
>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>> To: <[email protected]>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 9:00 AM
>>>> Subject: Los of speech with Window-Eyes
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am still having issues of Window-Eyes just stop talking now and
>>>>> then, and I was thinking that my computer was locking up, but I
>>>>> have
>>>>> confirmed, that this is not the case. It is in fact, Window-Eyes.
>>>>> This happends at least once a day and sometimes more ofthen than
that.
>>>>>
>>>>> One way to tell for sure, is to do a control backslash, and then
>>>>> alt-f4, and enter, and then load another screen reader, and if the
>>>>> computer starts talking, we know it is Window-Eyes that is the
>>>>> problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is getting old, and it has been going on since Window-Eyes
>>>>> 7.0.
>>>>>
>>>>> I do hope that the loving folks at GW Micro could please fix this
>>>>> problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't get any script update alerts at all.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Pat Ferguson
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