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Re: Mysterious JAWS voice change

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Aug 6, 2016 10:05AM

When Jaws sees 5 digits or more without a separator (like a "," or
".") it stops reading the number as a number and starts announcing
individual digits.
You can adjust this in the Jaws browser settings (JawsKey-V).
then type "numbers" and you will see "number options".
The first entry under that is "digit threshold" which is set to 5 by default.
That doesn't really answer your question honestly, but if you set this
option to 6, would Rocco's demonic voice only start scaring you after
6 digits?
If so, the voice change is tied to this setting and that is an
important detail if filing a Jaws bug or comment.
Heres' the kicker. This never happens in my Jaws (16 or 17 with IE or FF).
This bug is elusive.
-B




On 8/6/16, Jamous, JP < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I wish I knew Shane. I observed it on our company site and other sites too.
>
> It seems that the function to change the speaking rate of the synthesizer is
> fired up in the IE.jss file. I used that function to slow JAWS down in one
> of my scripts to allow it to read the font size, type and color at a slower
> speed than the regular one that I use.
>
> Personally, I think it is a bug that they need to clear up. It doesn't
> happen with me all the time. It fires up at random.
>
> I believe it uses Rocko's or Read's voice in a very low rate and pitch. That
> is why you described it as demonic.
>