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From: gdlee@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Gary D. Lee)
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Subject: desqview and speech
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Date: 12 Jul 90 21:07:23 GMT
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I am currently running desqview 386 on a zenith 386-16 with a Sounding-
board synthesizer and the Vocal-eyes screen reader.  It works pretty
well so far.  I have found that you need to run the drivers for for the
synthesizer before you enter desqview but run the speech software it-
self in each task.  Also you need to have the synthesizer configured 
as a parallel device so that you can tell desqview not to manage printer
contention.  This is because the synthesizer looks like a printer port
to desqview and if it manages printer contention it will not let 
more than one task have the port at the same time.  

You can have tasks running in the background but if they write to
the screen, you will have their speech intruding on your foreground
task.  With most programs like spreadsheets databases, and word
processors, this is not a problem.  If you have any questions about
desqview, vocal-eyes, ortions about the sounding board, vocal-eyes
or desqview please write or call.

		    Gary Lee
		    Senior Microcomputer analyst
		    Ball State University
		    work phone 317-285-1853

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