Well, yes, and I've done that and it was not the problem. wow, as I
said "major problem with Window-eyes or . . ., and the or . . . is
the case here. egg on my face, sort of, though this is going to
definitely potentially help someone.
In windows 7 there is a "volume mixer," and within that volume mixer,
depending on which sound devices are running it shows volumes and
controls for those devices. Suppose you have window-eyes running with
eloquence and someone mutes the control within volume mixer for
window eyes, and then unloads window eyes. Whenever window eyes
loads any internal synthesizer such as eloquence, DEC talk,
vocalizer, it wouldn't be heard since the "master volume" for window
eyes itself was muted, but not the master volume for the system
itself so other systems could access the realtech sound card without issue.
and, if window eyes runs using an external synthesizer such as my USB
triple talk, there is no item in the volume mixer to show.
If you cannot run window eyes eloquence in order to un mute the
synthesizer since it won't show in that dialog unless eloquence or
another "window-eyes" synthesizer is running, how then to un mute it?
I used NVDA and found that window eyes was muted within "master
volume mixer," and VUALA, un mute button push and speech, works,
again. I am about to call Aaron and let him know since it may be a
concern to tech support to know that within windows 7 there is more
than one "mute" button possible, and if the master volume mixers
"mute" button for window eyes is pushed, and the window dismissed,
how is someone without another screen reader to know how to fix it
since window eyes running an external synthesizer would not display
anything in that master volume mixer at all. :) I think that if,
there is a way, that "un mute" facility in a script could call a
potential "volume mixer" mute button concerning window eyes as well
as the mute for all sounds in master volume for the sound card.
Those settings in "master volume mixer" are saved immediately without
prompt, and the dialog dismissed with the escape key.
Again, this is a "realtech" sound card, a quite common one built into
many a mother board.
Curtis Delzer.
HS.
K 6 V F O
San Bernardino, CA.
[email protected]
skype: curtis1014
At 05:53 AM 12/10/12, Stephen Clower wrote:
Curtis,
Do you know if anything else has taken over control of your sound
card? We have seen some cases where opening a program that used ASIO
drivers could keep traditional WDM-based audio from being heard. Is
it possible to temporarily take VAC out of the mix, as it were?
Steve
On 12/8/2012 11:57 AM, Curtis Delzer wrote:
Hi all! ever since installing the first beta of WE 8, I have issues
regarding using any SAPI voice, but didn't think much of it until I lost
the ability to use both Dec_Access32 (for window-eyes) and Eloquence.
Yes, that is Eloquence for window-eyes also now will not talk. I think
it is something with my computer and it's ports, but don't know where to
adjust it since I've tried changing the port for the DEC and Eloquence
while using another screen reader to read the window-eyes combo box for
sound cards, to no avail.
Any ideas at all? I am stumped; have changed my "speakers" setting in
windows 7 and changed it back, (while using my USB triple talk which is
the only synthesizer right now that I can hear using Window-Eyes 8. All
other systems on my computer will use my speakers correctly, but
Window-Eyes using any synthesizer other than my triple talk, is silent,
though I hear the ascending beeps for "revert, or keep."
THANKS! for Ideas, and I am hoping for a Saturday morning geek to say,
or tap me on the shoulder, and give me the magic elixir!
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