Hello everyone,
I am using a Sony VAIO VGN-SR190E notebook. When I installed JAWS 10.0.1142 (well, actually, when I installed the 10.0.1139 a few days earlier) in late March, I noticed that RealSpeak Solo Direct was behaving oddly. It inserts jibberish words and characters into the normal speech pattern; in some instances, like when reading the message list in Outlook, it would say something totally different instead of "unread" etc. I am using RealSpeak Solo Direct now, and when reading the line I just typed, I heard "beachp" before the word "message" in that line. Even when I type letters sometimes I get jibberish instead. It is almost like RealSpeak/JAWS is taking information from other parts of the screen and blending it into the current stream. I called Freedom Scientific and they had no idea what I was talking about. They suggested reinstalling the Realtek HD audio driver that came with my computer, but that did nothing except slow RealSpeak Solo Direct down. It was because of the slowness that I removed the Realtek driver and started using the default Microsoft driver, what ever that is. As a test, yesterday morning I installed JAWS 10.0.1142 on another Sony VAIO laptop I had sitting around, a VGN-N365E/B. I noticed that during installation, I was asked to install a driver from an unknown publisher. Not thinking, I said "okay" and installed the driver, what ever it is. After I restarted the computer, the same RealSpeak problem started occurring. I wonder if this driver that was installed (eather by JAWS or Windows Vista?) has anything to do with the problem? Does anyone know what the driver in question is? Also, does anyone have any other ideas of what may be causing this problem and how I might fix it? Thank you kindly, Michael Hansen For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
