Hello Mike:
You wrote in part:
"if you have DEC set as
your backup synthesizer and WE thinks the shift
key is down when it launches it will switch to the backup synthesizer."
I don't have or want a backup synthesizer. I prefer Eloquence speech over
DecTalk; the latter sounds as if it is hiding inside a tunnel of some kind
and pronounces words strangely. It does not matter whether I change pitch,
tone, or rate. The DecTalk shipping with Window-Eyes just sounds too awful
in my ears for my liking but maybe if I learn to wear hearing aids the story
might be different. I'm not at that point just yet though and I do hope
never to get there!
When choosing the preferred speech parameters, I never set up a backup
synthesizer.
As for Window-Eyes assuming that the Shift key is pressed at start-up,
that's interesting. The keyboard IS NOT TOUCHED until Window-Eyes loads.
So then why would Window-Eyes assume that the Shift key is pressed?
As an aside--and this relates to Eloquence itself--when does GW Micro intend
to take a harder look at the way Eloquence process the reading of the
following:
$1 million
It reads it as 1-dollars million, instead of 1 million dollars! I don't
have this problem in Eloquence with other screen readers!! I wonder what
other screen readers are doing correctly that Window-Eyes seems to be
missing? Many thanks!!
Sincerely,
Olusegun
Denver, Colorado
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