Category: Let's talk
Hey all, I'm not sure if the settings would be the same for window eyes and jaws, but generally what is your rate of speech?
I use window eyes and eloquence.
Screen rate, 66
Keyboard Rate, 70
Mouse Rate, 66
I have a feeling this is slow for some, but to me, it is just right.
How about y'all?
I have my JAWS speach settings at 60%
Interesting question. At the moment I keep jaws around 80% for surfing the web and writing documents, and often slow it down to 70 or even 65 or lower when reading a book. I can't comfortably listen to anything above 85 or 90% for extended periods of time.
Brice
Depends on what I'm doing, but I'd say around 60%. If I'm wearing headphones, Ican work faster. I keep my keyboard voice faster, because it gets in the way for me at times when I'm typing. Interesting question.
Lou
hmm,
the pc and jaws cursor voices are set to 69%
as for the keyboard, I leave at quiet since I don't like jaws blabbering as I type.
I've got JAWS set to 60%. Keyboard echo is completely off; having that on drives me crazy!
The keyboard voice is completely silent. Otherwise, all other voices are set to 70%
I use JAWS. I have keyboard echo off and everything else at 75%. HOpe this helps.
80 percent for jaws speech 100 percent for key echo.
Wow, keyboard off! That would take some typing confidence for me. I'm a good typest, but lol! I'd keep thinking, did I mess something up?
Glad to see our general screen rate is farely similar.
Hee-Hee, now I'm going to have to try that keyboard off thing. Is that how y'all have it on your cell phone as well?
I use Jaws, and I have it at 65 percent with key echo completely off. I have verbocity at medium because I don't need Jaws to say alt tab, and desktop when I get to it. I can understand it at 70, but I like it where it is. I used to increase the speech after I got used to it, or thought it was too slow. As for cell phones, I have Talks at the highest speed with word echo so I can fix the word right away if I mess up. I can probably even turn that off cuz I'm more used to texting. My family always comment on how they can't understand Jaws or Talks.
i don't have anything any higher than 60 percent on both my desktop and laptop. even though i don't necesarily need it on, i have everything on, except punctuation, and my mouse on my desktop, because when i'm on the computer, chances are i'm not paying attention to what i'm doing most of the time, and i like to kno where i am if something happens, (if i accidently click on something i don't mean to), specially on my laptop. i probablly should turn the mouse off on my laptop to, but i'm to lazy to do that, and i keep my hands away from it anyway.
as for my phone, i haven't even worried about tuching the settings of talks, cause i'm not good at texting yet. so it's still on the settings it was installed with, but i think i had the person who installed it just set every thing to 60 or lower until i get faster at using my phone.
I have my JAWS set to 82% with the elequence systhesizer when I'm doing most things like using the internet and looking at e-mails, or talking on messengers. For my college work though like if I'm using microsoft word, I have elequence set to ... I can't remember what speed, but I think it's in the 60's somewhere so it's slower than thhe main speed. I also hate the key echo, so I have it set to off and use the advanced jaws settings, so that it doesn't go on about press up and down arrows for this and that. I do like to have the tool tips on though, so I can get the size of the files and things as I go down the list. If I do for some reason decide to use the French or German profiles I've made, I've got those set to much slower than the main profile as well.
I know a lot of people can't understand how I can understand jaws that fast, but I guess it's because I've been using it for a couple of years and can't be bothered to wait around.
Adding to the last post, I also have my talks set to speed 9 or whatever the fastest is for my mobile phone. Well on the aiphone, I don't know what speed I have voice over at, but sure I'll find out when I get used to using it. Yes, I know I'm mad for getting yet another piece of technology, but still.
Dare I say this? I have JAWS set to 45%.
That said, I'm so used to looking at things in Braille I can do a lot without speech though I try and listen to one thing and read another a lot. Then again, if I were sighted I probably would have been called whatever it is where you don't differentiate right from left, or left from right ... of course I differentiate it but it looks the same. May not have served me in school but works wonders when debugging a situation in programming ...
I like to use speech as little as possible and so on my PAC Mate I never do. Used to have the keyboard echo off but use word Echo now as if I'm switching from English to programming in one language or another or vice bersa, I can more easily catch stuff people hate like use of single rather than double quotes or semicolons at end of statement ...
And at 45% my family can't understand it, but they also rarely have to hear it. Seems if sighted people hear speech (Alex on the Mac would be different I think), they are bothered by it, or taken away with the fact that you can understand it rather than concentrating on whatever it is you're doing, so I keep things minimal in that department.
61 I can't understand anything faster then that, but my braillenote rate is at ten or eleven now. I've have been a jaws user for five years, before I just simply didn't use the computer except the braillenote, but I still can't work jawws quickly and I am trying echo only with words and that's giving me some trouble. I could type much faster with all the letters echoing. verbocity is medium and that's okay.... I ain't much of a tech person, I am more in to the humanities.
I have my jaws at 50%. If it were any slower it would drive me crazy. If it were any faster it would probably give me a head ache. I keep my key echo and my punctuation off as well.
Leslie
Typing echo is off, rate is 70 percent for everything else, punctuation is off, and verbosity is intermediet. As someone said above, however, I like to slow it down when I'm reading something extensive.
I usually hve jaws holding at 65 to 70 speech wise, if i'm reading large bunches of twitter messages or doing a lot of detailed reading i'll slow it down for that window only until i leave it and it resets. otherwise i've left most settings alone except for disabling some of the help info and puncuation somewhat.
God, I can't have JAWS set above about 40, lol. Lord knows how everyone else who's posted to this topic seems to have it set 3 times faster than your average audio book or the rate at which people would normally speak to you and still be able to understand it, lol. I'm partially deaf, maybe that's the deciding factor there, for I have my speech set to between 36 and 40 percent on any laptop or PC I use, nice, slow, understandable, clearish US or UK English, lol, and for both my Nokia Symbian phones, I have the speech rate set between 5 and 7 percent on the 7610 second Ed phone but the N96 I think, has different rates to the older 7610, so I have that set to speed 7, maximum. Key echo on the phone is turned off to make texting, adding contacts, searching for stuff on the web Etc, easier, but on the lappy or PC, JAWS is set to Intermediate verbocity with key echo set to letters.
Jen.
All of mine 85%