Dave, Try opening something which will keep the audio device active like Winamp. We explicitly keep the device open with Eloquence, but it's up to Windows when SAPI speaks.
Steve Dave Bahr <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi there, > >I am looking into new synthesizers for reading text. I am interested in > >the cepstral and Loquendo voices. I have been testing them in a >Window-Eyes environment and have noticed a very slow response with >them. >I am used to eloquence which of course has pretty fast response. But >this is probably half a second between a key press and a spoken action. > >This is particularly true in the case of pressing letters on the >keyboard. I have the interrupt ability set to all keys. I was just >curious if there was any way to possibly increase the response time. I >am running a machine with an AMD quadcore, windows 7, 64-bit, and 16 GB > >DDR three RAM. The soundcards are external but responsiveness with >eloquence is not flagged by using them. > >I realize that this also just might be the footprint of the synthesizer > >itself but the cepstral voices are about 30 MB, I don't know the >footprints of eloquence voices. Is there anything I can do or am I just >SOL? > >-- >Dave C. Bahr >Facebook: Dave Bahr >Twitter: dcbahr >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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. 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.
