Hi Louis: You are right about individual letters being more and less recognizible as caps via pitch in WindowEyes. I am not sure if the cap pitch is a standard feature of a synth but I know both jaws and NVDA have settings to adjust the cap pitch up or down. They also have 0 lag time for this feature as far as I can tell. I am currently using the beeper visual basic script developed by some user who also likely had this problem with WindowEyes. It is not a good solution but the best work-around for this WindowEyes problem I have found so far. There might be a way to script an actual pitch change but I really don't like using let alone createing visual basic scripts to run on something I want to be as high performing as my screen reader. So unless Aaron and the guys get around to adding this to match NVDA and JAWS features we areSOL. Just use the beeper app and have allot of tylenol on hand. If I can turn the volume downon the beep it might be ok but I sure don't look forward to 10 hours a day of that noise while trying to do computer design, programming and testing debugging while using camel casing variables and objects. So that is the state of affairs as I find them so far. I have other options for programming and have been using them in place of WindowEyes more and more over the past year or so. I had hoped for this and some other performance enhancements in the 9.1 release but it seems this feature was passed over by the AI Squared staff. Rick USA
-----Original Message----- From: gosselin_louis [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 9:44 AM To: 'Rick Thomas'; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List'; 'Chris Grabowski' Subject: RE: Caps Pitch Control I, too, have found that the elevation of the voice pitch was unsatisfactory, but it's also true that the elevation of the pitch seems to depend on which letter is the one capitalized. I'm sure that somewhere in the lines of code that controls the synthesizer, there has to have been a parameter that causes the pitch to shift, so it has to be possible to change that parameter. Perhaps it would take the owners of Eloquence to do it, but I'm betting it wouldn't take a whole lot of effort to accomplish it. Do you think it might be worth writing to them? Maybe there's even something the end-user might access with some direction from the company. You never know for sure unless you ask. Louis Gosselin -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+gosselin_louis=myfairpoint....@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Rick Thomas via Talk Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 9:12 AM To: 'Chris Grabowski'; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' Subject: RE: Caps Pitch Control Hi Chris: OK so WindowEyes cant set the cap pitch as can other screen readers. This is not a good thing. I will try the beeper script but I don't like running ever more and more vb scripts just to have basic screen reader functions available. I will let you know how it turns out. Rick USA -----Original Message----- From: Chris Grabowski [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 8:50 AM To: Rick Thomas; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: RE: Caps Pitch Control Hi Rick, It is not possible to change the level of pitch for capital letters. We offer the 60 day evaluation version so people can have access to everything Window-eyes has to offer, including the premium synthesizers. If the pitch change isn't enough, perhaps installing the third party cap beeper app. https://www.gwmicro.com/App_Central/Apps/Download/?scriptid=1216 This makes a beep when you move across a capital letter. You can even use a different sound if you don't like the beep the author included. Thanks, Chris Window-Eyes Product Support Ai Squared 725 Airport North Office Park Fort Wayne, IN 46825 (802) 362-3612 www.aisquared.com -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Thomas via Talk Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 8:02 AM To: 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' Subject: Caps Pitch Control Hi Steve: There should be a way to control the pitch change for capital letters me thinks. I havent found it in WindowEyes Settings yet though. Some speech operations are still slightly sluggish even with Eloquence which I have to attribute to WindowEyes itself from past experience. That said I am asking about how to improve the speech settings including the pitch change for capitalization - I am pretty sure that is doable but not sure WindowEyes has a setting to do it, we will see. I just dropped 40 bucks to get Eloquence so I hope WindowEyes takes advantage of its feature set. The slight lag times are annoying but not so bad that I will dump WindowEyes all be it I am disapointed so far with WindowEyes performance with a hot synth like Eloquence. But, as mentioned, I will ask on list how to tweak settings to see if I can get things working well enough to not be a constant hassle using WindowEyes. Wish I could have given WindowEyes and Eloquence a glowing congratulations out of the box but it is what it is. Rick USA _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. 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