Hi Marsha,
Oh, I agree with you completely, but many of my students aren't convinced.
It may come from a time when synthesizers were very simple indeed, and
didn't have much range for different voices.
Ah, to recall the days of personal speech systems, Echos and Crickets.
*Chuckling*
At 05:48 PM 7/10/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi, Nancy. Marsha here. While some people might think that separate cursor
>voices are a good thing, I do not think it is good to rely on it rather than
>listening to what that speech is trying to say. In other words, don't
fall in
>love with the messenger, just listen to the message. I do not personally
have
>separate cursor voices. I personally think that people get so hung up on
>whether people need separate voices for different functions. I would
consider
>that kind of thing very distracting. Just give me a low-end speech
synthesizer
>that does what I want it to without a lot of fanciness.
>
>Marsha
>At 10:27 AM 7/10/1999 -0600, you wrote:
>>Hello Again,
>>
>>My students have yet another question for you. These are typically
>>questions which seek answers from many individual users, so that the
>>students can obtain an overview of how JAWS is used on a regular basis.
>>
>>Having realized that JAWS can define separate voice for the keyboard, the
>>PC cursor and the JAWS cursor, students would like to know how many of you
>>use this feature. They are hotly divided on whether it is necessary or
>>even useful.
>>
>>I, for instance, do not maintain separate voices for each cursor, and have
>>never found it necessary to do so. However, this is only for my personal
>>use, and I encourage students to use three distinct voices.
>>
>>Opinions and suggestions.
>>
>>Nancy Feldman, Technology Instructor
>>Colorado Center for the Blind
>>
>>
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