What exactly does this player do? It sounds really interesting. thanks
Have a good day from Tyler C. Wood! contact details: email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: the_conman283 system details: Hp pavillion dv5220CA notebook pc AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-37 2.0 GHZ, 1024 mb DDR ram, Fujitsu 100 gb 4500 RPM Hard Drive, connecsant AC-link audio ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Skarstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 2:51 PM Subject: Klango player, success! > Hey folks > > As the subject line says, I've figured it out so let me try to > explain this the very best I can. I followed Anthony's suggestion, > and this time, I kept JAWS 9.0 running while I ran the Klango Player, > just to see what might happen. I have a host of SAPI 5 voices > installed here so I figured at least one of them should start at some > point. I ran the Klango Player DX Mode option from the menu, it > actually shows up as a regular file in windows explorer which I > thought was kind of interesting. Anyways, I heard the tick, tock, > sound as before. I know on this particular machine that sometimes it > takes a while for one of the voices to load. So I remained patient > to see what happened. After waiting only about 30 to 45 seconds, I > heard the Realspeak Samantha voice, which is my default SAPI > synthesizer start speaking. I again followed Anthony's awesome > advice and created an account from with in a program. You're > presented with a menu and the first choice is log in, and the second > choice is create an account. To choose an option, just press > enter. To create an account, you first enter a username, and then > press enter. If your username is accepted, you can then create a > password. You're then asked to enter it again. If you forget it > there is an option to remind you later so don't worry. After that, > you're asked to enter an e-mail address so that they can send you an > e-mail with your password. > > So I set that up and we were all good. It asks you if you'd like to > enable auto-login, which I then turned on. The really interesting > thing about this program is that when you're presented with a menu of > choices, or you're asked to enter information, the voice is panned > completely to the left, and depending on what you do, the voice pans > over to the right. To conseptualize this, imagine that you open the > menu bar with the alt key. Your first choice will be spoken in the > left speaker. As you use your right arrow key to move along the > choices, the voice moves further right, until the last choice is read > only in the right speaker. This is cool because it kind of gives you > an idea of where you are within the menus. > Cool feature! > I took a look at the media section and it contains a number of radio > stations, podcasts and audio books, just as we've read before. The > cool thing about the Podcasts is that you can choose to actually > listen to it before you download it to your hard drive. So if you > don't like something you won't waste time downloading stuff you know > you don't want. Nice! Overall this player is a lot of fun! I do think > they need to make things a little easier to understand on the > documentation end so that people will understand *exactly* what is > going to happen before they get started I.e. In other words, In the > documentation, they should mention that a tick, tock sound will be > heard while your SAPI 5 voices load, and that it's important to run > the DX Mode option first and wait for your default SAPI 5 voice to > start speaking. I think this will help new users feel a lot more > comfortable. > Hope that helps clear things up. Thanks again Anthony for your > great advice on getting this going for me, and thanks to everyone > else who responded to my original question too. > > Chris > > > > > Jonathan Mosen List Founder > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.134 / Virus Database: 270.4.5/1533 - Release Date: 7/3/2008 7:19 PM Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
