Jake, I find the TTS engines tend to be quite problematic--especially the Via Voice/Eloquence ones. I often have no trouble with reading sluggishness with the Neospeech Voiceware Kate and Paul voices on my thinkpad with 2 GB of ram but multiple installations of the other synthesizers are quite problematic. These often explain the crashes that Michael is having as well. Pratik Pratik Patel Director, CUNY Assistive technology Services (CATS) The City University of New York pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jake Brownell Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 2:22 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: Announcing Patch Release 10.05 Hi Kellie, I tend to find that reading itself can become sluggish while recognizing images. It's not too much to hold off usually. I've got a decent processor, an AMD 64bit 3200+. I'm wondering if the onboard sound I have in this computer is part of my sluggishness though. Jake ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kellie Hartmann" <hart0421@xxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 12:38 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: Announcing Patch Release 10.05 > Hi Jake, > If you have a reasonably fast computer, reading while recognizing presents > no problem at all. If your computer is slower, then the program may > respond > sluggishly to keyboard commands while recognizing, but it doesn't result > in > crashes--only user frustration. <lol> > Kellie > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list > of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.4/363 - Release Date: 6/13/2006 > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.