[duxuser] problems using DBT 10.5 with Jaws 6 and speech
- From: "Taufa, John" <John.Taufa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:12:27 +1000
Hi Everyone,
I've got a colleague who is having problems using DBT 10.5 with Jaws 6
and speech. In her own words:
To try to summarise the problem:
- When I first tried to use jaws to read out loud DBT braille files I
was using Jaws 4.x I think and I could not get it 2 read correctly: it
read each character as though it was in Grade 0 or computer braille,
e.g. lower signs were read out as numbers, contractions such as ing or
ch as plus and star etc.
- So I was delighted when Jaws 5 came along & suddenly read aloud my
fully-contracted Grade 2 DBT braille files as perfectly as if it had
been reading DBT print files.
- Now with Jaws 6 I find a return to the old problem and have tried
adjusting every setting I can think of to no avail, it basically cannot
read out loud Grade 2 DBT braille files, and even if I was 2 try a file
written in uncontracted Grade 1 it would misread all the punctuation
marks as numbers.
When I am editing/doing a first proof on simple text books which have
scanned fairly accurately I often prefer to do using speech rather than
my braille display. Firstly, it's quicker and more relaxing on the arms
and fingers, and second, sometimes the speech allows you to pick up
errors which your brain would otherwise skim over in the braille - a
misspelled word or omitted punctuation sign is very obvious when
stumbled over by a speech-output "robot".
So are there script files for Jaws 6 which would solve this problem or
should I go back to using Jaws 5? The only drawback about using Jaws 5,
(and someone may have an answer for this too) is that when working with
a sighted transcriber (who inevitably wants to use a mouse) the mouse
does not seem to respond so they (not knowing how to do things by
keyboard commands) either have trouble doing their own editing or have
to get me to do simple things for them, even like opening and closing
files.
One other little glitch I'm having with Jaws 6, unrelated, it does
involve the braille display (as well as the speech). Whenever I am
editing a braille DBT file & turn on and off the codes, it no longer
announces with the speech as did Version 5 "coded view" or "formatted
view" (nothing to get 2 upset about) but starts leaving big gaps between
words on the braille display, and when I move the cursor onto one of
these gaps it responds in speech by saying "tab" when there is no tab
command there. Luckily I think these gaps do not come out on the
embossed braille copy, but to the full braille line on the display I
have to go the start of the word after the gap, backspace to get rid of
the thing it announces as "tab" and then re-insert a normal space with
the spacebar.
Hope at least some of this makes sense,
Lee
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JOHN TAUFA
Information Technology/Production Officer
P 02 9886 7395
F 02 9886 7114
E john.taufa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:john.taufa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
State Braille & Large Print Service
NSW Dept of Education & Training
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