A program/utility that often has an impact on software synthesized voices is the speaker phone companion. This may have been installed during an installation of Skype.
Vic -----Original Message----- From: Jenine Stanley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 7:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: speech breaking up and distorting I have 2 computers and they both are having an odd issue lately with their synthesizers. Both run WE 7.5 Desktop runs Windows7, with Ivona Kendra speech synthesizer. >From time to time the speech will break up, like an old radio that's poorly tuned. Sometimes also when adjusting the pitch, which I like at 2, the speech will become distorted as if it's too loud though the volume hasn't changed at all. The breaking up tends to fix itself but the distortion requires a complete reboot of the computer, not just shutting down WE and restarting. Laptop is running Windows XP with the AT&T Crystal synthesizer. I have WE start prior to log in and nothing has changed with the DECTalk speech. The last several days, when I boot up, and the speech changes over to Crystal, the voice is very distorted as if through a bad AM radio speaker. This is continuous, unlike the desktop computer issue. The only way to fix it is to exit WE and restart it. Then the speech returns to normal. Any idea what might be going on here? If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
