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Re: Mysterious JAWS voice change

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From: Chaals McCathie Nevile
Date: Aug 6, 2016 10:45AM

On Sat, 06 Aug 2016 15:39:58 +0200, Jamous, JP < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> I wish I knew Shane. I observed it on our company site and other sites
> too.

Is it picking it as a ZIP code? Does JAWS have special handling of things
it thinks might be addresses - or phone numbers - by default?

cheers

Chaals

> 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.
>