Grant.Downey@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Grant Downey) (06/28/91)
Index Number: 16504
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
This is message 1 of 3. Wow! Mary, you asked me one mighty
difficult question trying to
point out the advantages of Vocal-Eyes and Jaws. These two screen
readers are so good!, have so many excellent features!, and are so
user friendly! that it is not easy to say which one is better or
more advantageous. However I will point out my praises and
criticisms of each program and in doing so illustrate their
advantages and disadvantages.
First of all I think we should look at Vocal-eyes with its
companion speech sinthicizer The Soundingboard put together as the
Desktop Voice Package. This is a combo that is hard to beat as far
as price and features. The soundingboard offers much more than the
standard adjustments of rate, pitch, and tone and Vocal-Eyes offers
many features unique to it. Feature for feature the Desktop Voice
package I believe gives the user the most boom for the buck. Jaws
is sold with the Accent speech sinthicizer. Jaws is an outstanding
screen reading program with power and flexibility with an extremely
well thought out menu system and setup. I'm sorry that they
elected to match such a fine screen reader with the Accent.
More of my comments are continued in two other messages as I had
one heck of a time getting this uploaded in one.Grant
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