moderated Re: Jaws 2018 Eloquence synthesizer stops working
Mike B
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Hi Russell,
Would you please post the steps FS gave you?
I for 1 would like to make a note of this.
Take care. Mike. Sent from my iBarstool.
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From: Russell
Solowoniuk
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: Jaws 2018 Eloquence synthesizer stops
working I just got off the phone with Freedom Scientific. Apparently there is a Windows update that mutes the Eloquence FSSynth32 synthesizer. I just need to guide the student to the sound settings and unmute the synth! Thanks for your suggestions though, Russell On 1/14/20, David Griffith <daj.griffith@...> wrote: > > In your situation I would run the jaws 18 install again and select repair > in the first instance and if that does not work go the uninstall and install > route assuming your student still has activation details to hand. > > David Griffith > -----Original Message----- > From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Russell > Solowoniuk > Sent: 14 January 2020 18:37 > To: jfw@groups.io > Subject: Jaws 2018 Eloquence synthesizer stops working > > Hi all, > > I'm working with a student who has a fairly new HP laptop running Windows > 10, not sure exactly what edition of Windows. He is running Jaws 2018, and > yesterday Jaws quit speaking. I wasn't there when this happened, but talked > to him on the phone afterward. We could not get Jaws to speak, so I had him > turn Narrator on, and we quickly discovered that the issue seemed to be the > Eloquence speech synthesizer. We went into the Voice settings and changed > the synthesizer from Eloquence to SAPI 5, 64 bit, and Jaws immediately began > speaking. I had the student try to go back and change the synthesizer back > to Eloquence, but it doesn't seem to be available in the list of > synthesizers. > > Has anyone else experienced anything similar? Any ideas how to get the > Eloquence synthesizer back working? > > Thanks all, > > Russell > > > > > > > >
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