OK, I think I see your confusion here - in both the hotkeys being named
"voice rotors". Agreed, this could confuse more users, than you. Still, not
really sure which other terms would have been more descriptive, and less
confusing.
Well, then, let's try it this way around the bush:
The Win-F2, is a hotkey attached to the VoiceRotor app. What this app does,
is that it lets you choose between the installed voices on your computer.
That way, you can quickly switch between two or more voices. For instance, I
have set mine up the way, that I easily can switch between the English
Eloquence Reed, and a couple of non-English voices, depending on the
material I am currently working on.
The moment you switch voice, all further activity on your computer, will be
read out by means of that voice. So when I switch to the non-English voice,
anything on my computer will be read out by that voice in its language. If I
want to get back to Eloquence, I will have to hit the hotkey again, cycling
back to the Eloquence Reed voice.
All of this, you could have performed manually, in the WE Control Panel,
under Devices \ Synthesizers. The VoiceRotor app, simply puts it all into a
hotkey, letting you perform the task, from anywhere on your computer.
Now, that was the Win-F2 key. Then, what about the Alt-Ctrl-Right-Arrow
hotkey?
This hotkey, is a build-in hotkey of WE itself. It does not really switch
voice, but rather switches between what activity the voice is performing.
Hitting this hotkey several times, you will switch between "Screen",
"Keyboard", "Mouse" and "All".
Window-Eyes, is such designed, that it can perform differently - all
depending on where the info is taken from. You can, for instance, have text
found on your screen, read out with a higher volume, than the text that you
type on the keyboard. Or, you could have anything that you hower your mouse
over, being spoken out with a higher speed, as compared to the text that you
will get read out to you, directly from the screen.
So, when you set the Alt-Ctrl-Right-Arrow hotkey to screen, you now can
change certain parameters, for how the voice will perform on screen
contents. You do not change the voice itself, simply just change the voice
behavior, or voice activity - even if you want, the voice properties - not
sure what term you would prefer.
Cycling the hotkey to "Keyboard", you will be able to set the same kind of
parameters, for how the voice should handle info recieved from the Keyboard.
Likewise, setting it to "Mouse", you adjust how it will behave when
receiving its input from the mouse howering. And, when you set the hotkey to
"All", you will change the parameters equally for the Screen, Keyboard and
Mouse handling. I.e, you can raise the volume of all these voice behavior
states, instead of having to raise the volume of each one individually.
Cycle the hotkey to the "All" setting. Then use the Alt-Ctrl-Left-Arrow
hotkey, to determine which parameter to change. You can change Volume,
Speed, Pitch (if your voice supports it), and the tone. Once at the
parameter you want to adjust, use Alt-Ctrl-Up or down, to increase or
decrease the parameter. Play around with it all for a bit, and you will see
for yourself, what it does, and which part of your reading will be affected.
OK, then let's sum it all up, in a few words.
The Win-F2, does choose which voice or synthesizer should do your reading.
The Alt-Ctrl-Arrow hotkeys, do affect the way the voice you just have
chosen, will behave depending on where it gets its input from.
Does that make sense to you?
Finally, not to mess you up, but a tiny whining to the staff of GW:
One big lack of Window-Eyes, in my opinion, is that you cannot have
different voices set for the info received from the Screen, apart from the
keyboard and so forth. You choose one voice, and then you only can choose
the behavior differently for each of the input sources.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Butch K" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 2:29 AM
Subject: voice rotor hotkeys
Hello, can anyone tell me the difference between these two hotkeys? Control,
alt, right arrow, which is the voice rotor hotkey in the hotkeys list. And
Windows key f2, which also rotors through the voices you have chosen in the
voice rotor app dialog. Any help is appreciated.
Butch
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