Hey folks As the subject line says, I've figured it out so let me try to explain this the very best I can. I followed Anthony's suggestion, and this time, I kept JAWS 9.0 running while I ran the Klango Player, just to see what might happen. I have a host of SAPI 5 voices installed here so I figured at least one of them should start at some point. I ran the Klango Player DX Mode option from the menu, it actually shows up as a regular file in windows explorer which I thought was kind of interesting. Anyways, I heard the tick, tock, sound as before. I know on this particular machine that sometimes it takes a while for one of the voices to load. So I remained patient to see what happened. After waiting only about 30 to 45 seconds, I heard the Realspeak Samantha voice, which is my default SAPI synthesizer start speaking. I again followed Anthony's awesome advice and created an account from with in a program. You're presented with a menu and the first choice is log in, and the second choice is create an account. To choose an option, just press enter. To create an account, you first enter a username, and then press enter. If your username is accepted, you can then create a password. You're then asked to enter it again. If you forget it there is an option to remind you later so don't worry. After that, you're asked to enter an e-mail address so that they can send you an e-mail with your password.
So I set that up and we were all good. It asks you if you'd like to enable auto-login, which I then turned on. The really interesting thing about this program is that when you're presented with a menu of choices, or you're asked to enter information, the voice is panned completely to the left, and depending on what you do, the voice pans over to the right. To conseptualize this, imagine that you open the menu bar with the alt key. Your first choice will be spoken in the left speaker. As you use your right arrow key to move along the choices, the voice moves further right, until the last choice is read only in the right speaker. This is cool because it kind of gives you an idea of where you are within the menus. Cool feature! I took a look at the media section and it contains a number of radio stations, podcasts and audio books, just as we've read before. The cool thing about the Podcasts is that you can choose to actually listen to it before you download it to your hard drive. So if you don't like something you won't waste time downloading stuff you know you don't want. Nice! Overall this player is a lot of fun! I do think they need to make things a little easier to understand on the documentation end so that people will understand *exactly* what is going to happen before they get started I.e. In other words, In the documentation, they should mention that a tick, tock sound will be heard while your SAPI 5 voices load, and that it's important to run the DX Mode option first and wait for your default SAPI 5 voice to start speaking. I think this will help new users feel a lot more comfortable. Hope that helps clear things up. Thanks again Anthony for your great advice on getting this going for me, and thanks to everyone else who responded to my original question too. Chris Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
