Hi Steve, One thing to check is that you have disabled audio special effects in the advanced tab of the properties dialog for your sound card. Also, you may consider trying this:
On my Windows 7 machine, I pressed the Start button, and, in the search box, typed: Performance I eventually was able to arrow down to an entry called: Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows Pressing Enter on this opened up the Performance Options dialog, where there are a number of options which can be toggled on and off. See if turning off some of these makes a difference. Hth, Rod -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail....@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Steve Jacobson via Talk Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 10:24 AM To: Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: RE: synth suggestion Rod, Clearly you have had better luck than I have had, but I've consistently been disappointed on two computers. That being said, even if I was disappointed, some might find the trade-off I experienced to be worth the quality of speech. In addition, your experience has been different than mine and there is likely an undiscovered reason that is the case, so perhaps what can be said is that one might want to try the synthesizers out before purchasing, or purchase knowing that their experience could vary. Meanwhile, I am going to check the settings on the desktop computer upon which I have those voices installed to see if there might be something I can change to improve performance, although I am very satisfied with the performance of Eloquence. Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:08:50 -0500, Rod Hutton wrote: >Hi Steve, >They all work perfectly, but I prefer Neospeech VW-Kate. >Hth, >Rod >-----Original Message----- >From: Talk >[mailto:talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail....@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf >Of Steve Jacobson via Talk >Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 9:49 PM >To: Window-Eyes Discussion List >Subject: RE: synth suggestion >Wow, I'm also running 64-bit, and I found typing with character echo to be >almost pointless, and the arrow keys to be sluggish. Which specific voice >are >you useing? >Best regards, >Steve Jacobson >On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:33:13 -0500, Rod Hutton wrote: >>Hi Steve, >>I'm running Windows 7 64-bit and I don't find any sluggishness of any kind >>either within Kurzweil or Window-Eyes with the Neospeech voices regardless >>of speech rate settings. >>Hth, >>Rod >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Talk >>[mailto:talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail....@lists.window-eyes.com] On >Behalf >>Of Steve Jacobson via Talk >>Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 11:59 AM >>To: Window-Eyes Discussion List; Window-Eyes Discussion List >>Subject: RE: synth suggestion >>I have also tried those voices with Window-Eyes as I have them as part of >>Kurzweil 1000. The sound is very nice >>but they remain slow responding as one might expect with synthesizers that >>sound as natural as they do. I also >>think that James sounds better when he speaks a phrase or two than he does >>when reading a lot of text. That >>disappointed me some. >>Best regards, >>Steve Jacobson >>On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:09:56 -0500, Rod Hutton via Talk wrote: >>>Hi Peter, >>>I use Neospeech voices with Window-Eyes, but they came bundled with >>Kurzweil >>>1000. >>>Therefore, they work with Window-Eyes, they are SAPI 5.0 voices, but you >>>must acquire them either by purchasing them directly from Neospeech or you >>>get them with Kurzweil. >>>Hth, >>>Rod >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Talk >>>[mailto:talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail....@lists.window-eyes.com] On >>Behalf >>>Of via Talk >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 9:36 PM >>>To: talk@lists.window-eyes.com >>>Subject: synth suggestion >>>Hi list. Got a suggestion for synths: Has there been any talk about >>having >>>Neospeech as a synth that can be used with Window-Eyes? 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