Dave, Not that I know of. Something else you might try is the GW Audio Kit. Assuming your speech is piped out of your default Windows sound card, the audio kit will leave said sound device open. You can find it on App Central.
Steve Dave Bahr <[email protected]> wrote: >Well see that's just it, I have winamp playing through a different >sound >source normally because of volume issues and recording and all that. Is > >there a way to force the audio device to stay open with sapi? a command > >switch or something? > >Dave C. Bahr >Facebook: Dave Bahr >Twitter: dcbahr > >On 9/12/2012 3:51 PM, Stephen Clower wrote: >> 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? >> >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
