Is it due to anything in the preference? I guess I never heard itl. What I heard is Audacity taking a while to pause with software speech. Wonder if thgis should be filed as a bug maybe. Anyone on the Audacity regular user's list. i have too much email to join at the time. ] Scott
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 3:28 PM Subject: Re: Audacity weirdness! >O no I've had it change and i can hear the difference and no one said >anything about it bu then at the time my ears were super sensitive. > > SA&G > >> Hi, >> >> It may change very slightly here too but its so little I wouldn't >> have even noticed unless someone said something and I'm not entirely >> convinced that I'm not just imagineing it. >> >> Rick >> >> >> ======= >> >> Visit my webpage and podcast feed at www.blind-geek-zone.net >> >> Here you will find Audio tutorials for popular programs, blindness >> related web links, blind mailing list links and documents for various >> things. >> >> If you are looking for customized one on one software training and >> friendly and knowledgeable technical support for very cheap rates >> then visit my website and click on the training and tech support link. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Sarah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 2:12 PM >> Subject: Re: Audacity weirdness! >> >> >> that happens to me to and I would like to know why. It also happens to >> another friend of mine using said program as well. >> >>> 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. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >>> http://www.pc-audio.org >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> http://www.pc-audio.org >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> http://www.pc-audio.org >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
