Two possible explanations occur to me. Even though JAWS may be set to
load with a hardware speech synthesizer as default
(No. 1 synth), JAWS seems to require as a condition for working that its
Eloquence driver be able to load and work properly. That may be the
reason. Also, after some hard crashes, although I have an Apollo 2
external synthesizer set as default JAWS will somehow start with
eloquence or 'factory' settings. I then can reset it. It would be nice
if you could get up the eror report.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doris and Chris" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Audio Device Confusion
Plese. there was no problem with the soundcards or the driver. It was
total Recorder that set itself as the widnows default sound device and
since it did not close properly, did not undo this change. therefore
the sound devices got jumbled up. This should not have been a problem,
however, as jaws was set to use my external hardware synthesizer. You
may not go back long enough to remember hardware synthesizers. This is
not just an external soundcard but is a hardwaredevice on its own that
does not show up under windows's sound devices and under the NT track
of windows, no driver is actually loaded under windows but the
screenreader that is to be used with the hardware synthesizer needs to
come wiht a driver for it. Jaws does have this driver; nvda does not.
Since jaws was set to use the hardware synthesizer, any confusion or
driver issues with windows sound devices should not have impacted
jaws's starting properly using the hardware synth.
Hardware synthesizers are legacy hardware devices. Other, and maybe
more familiar hardware synthesizers, are the DECTAlk synths (not to be
confused with Access 32 or the recent DECTAlk reader software),
Doubletalk, Tripletalk, etc.
hth
Doris
At 07:24 AM 3/17/2012 -0700, you wrote:
I guess maybe either Your soundcard or Your sound driver is having
problem. You can do one thing. uninstall Your sound driver and
install latest sound driver. if doesn't solve Your problem then maybe
there is a problem in Your soundcard.
On 3/17/12, Doris and Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
> I ran into a jaws error here that surprised me.
>
> I had been recording an audio stream with Total Recorder when I got
> a
> blue screen with a dcm error and had to do a hard reset to restart
> my box.
>
> When the machine came up, the audio devices were all jumbled up.
> This
> came as no surprise as this will happen when Total Recorder crashes
> and does not close down properly but stays set as the default audio
> device.
>
> jaws did not load completely when the computer came back up and
> this
> did surprise me as I had had jaws running with my 14-year-old
> Keynote
> External Hardware synth. I would have expected possible problems
> had
> jaws been set to use software speech when I had the Blue Screen
> but
> since it was set to use my hardware synth, I had not expected any
> problem by the mixed up sound devices as the Keynote external does
> not show up among the windows audio devices at all.
>
> I could not restart jaws properly at all until I had had the audio
> devices sorted out using my sighted husband's sighted assistence to
> properly reset the windows default sound device to my pci soundcard
> and then fixed up the rest using nvda and rebooted the box.
>
> Why did jaws not load properly when it was set to use my hardware
> synth as the default profile?
>
> any help with this would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks bunches.
>
> Doris
>
>
>
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