Hi folks. I'd like to think I'm pretty good with solving a lot of audio-related problems, but this one's got me completely stumped. This is going to sound completely nuts, but trust me, this is exactly what's happening, and I'd even be willing to send someone an audio file to proove it. Sometime yesterday, I heard about Audacity, which is a pretty popular sound editor So being the somewhat brave sowl I am, I downloaded and installed it and all went very well, absolutely no problems. Then, when the program launched, that's when the weirdness comes into play. I am currently using JAWS 8 with an earlier version of the dec-talk access 32 software speech, and 99.9 percent of the time it sounds absolutely beautiful. But when I launch audacity to look around and have a play with it, there is a slight change to the speech, and it sounds as if it is running slightly slower, as if the voice is on a tape and is running a little low on batteries. I have never heard of this happening, so I figured maybe it was just my imagination. So I switched to another software synthesizer, namely eloquence and the effect was the same. Closing audacity had no effect on it, and the only way to really make the speech return to normal was to shut down, and restart JAWS. I switched over to my dec-talk express hardware synth sso I could have a further look and I wanted to see if it was some kind of weird sound card issue or something. By default, the program is routed to the Microsoft sound mmapper for both playing and recording, so I changed the program so that it found my card, which is an SB audigy 2, or SB audigy audio ff80, as it says in the options for most programs. So then I closed down audacity in JAWS and I got the speech to sound normal again. then, I launched audacity again, same deal, the speech sounded slightly slower. W to the t to the f? So I'm stumped as to why this is happening, and I've run out of ideas. The only other idea I have is that Audacity might be a memory hog and is taking up a lot of power which could cause weird stuff to happen, so I'm wwondering if that could be it? I'd like to find out what's happening so I can start using the program a little more. I heard a demonstration that was given about it so i was hoping to give it a go, but I'd like to solve this issue first. So, any ideas would be great!!! Thanks folks.
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