Effective Use of the Computer Sound Card

If you are planning on obtaining J-Say Pro, you may find the following helpful.

When you connect a USB device to your computer, such as a USB sound converter for use with a headset/microphone, you often find that JAWS/Eloquence will use the new USB device as its primary sound source.
This is fine in the most part, since many people will want to hear JAWS through the supplied headset. However, if you want to hear JAWS from the speakers connected to another sound card for optimum sound quality, then you certainly will not want this. Simply changing the Sounds and Audio devices within the Windows Control Panel to reflect the two different sound sources is not usually enough in itself to tell JAWS which sound card to use for the eloquence speech. Here is how to deal with that situation.

1. Using Windows Explorer, locate the folder containing the program files for the version of JAWS you are running. For example, for JAWS 7.0 this would be C:Program FilesFreedom ScientificJAWS7.0
2. Now locate the file called jfw.ini and open it by pressing enter. It will open in notepad.
3. Within this file, you will find the following lines:

   Synth1Name=eloq
   Synth1LongName=Eloquence for JAWS
   Synth1Driver=eloq

4. Below these lines, paste a line such as>

   Synth1Port=Sound Blaster Audigy

   The Soundblaster Audigy example is the name of the sound card you would prefer to use.
   The text after the = sign in the Port line comes from Control Panel/Sound & Multimedia/Audio tab It must be one of the entries that can be chosen for Preferred Playback device.
5. Now save and close the file and re-start jaws.