JFW scripts for Adobe Audition

Current version: 20050117

Authors: James Teh, Victer Tsaran and Michael Curran.

Important Note!

These scripts are no longer being maintained and may not work with later versions of Jaws. If anyone is interested in continuing on with maintaining them, please send me an email to: mick@kulgan.net

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Features
• What versions of what work with what?
• Download
• Installation
• Contact info

Introduction

These are the JFW scripts for Adobe Audition. To learn about Adobe Audition itself, please visit: The Adobe Audition home page

Adobe Audition, previously known as Cool Edit Pro, is a very nice sound editing and multi-track package. And it may look very nice and friendly to sighties, but for blindies its not so accessible. But if you are blind, and Jaws for Windows is the screen reader you tend to use, then these scripts are for you.

Features

Some of the features of the scripts are:

• Find out the current edit cursor, play cursor, and view range times
• Have times spoken in either:
  • Printed form e.g. 00:03:10:22
  • Descriptive form e.g. 3 minutes, 10 seconds, 22 miliseconds
  • Positional form e.g. beginning, end
• Have the name of a cue marker spoken when jumping to it
• The ability to navigate all the toolbars
• Access to the selection/view controls
• Have major statis changes spoken automatically e.g. when audition stops playing/recording
• Be able to use the track view:
  • Navigate up and down tracks
  • Navigate left and right through each track's fields
  • Access the context menu for each wave block
  • Check and set the statis for such fields as mute, solo and record

What versions work with what?

Currently, These scripts will work with Adobe Audition 1.0 and 1.5. How ever, These scripts will only work with JFW 5.1 and above for the reason they use certain window messaging functions that are used to pass information to and from Adobe Audition and Jaws, which were only introduced in to Jaws around 5.1.

There is also a bug when using the scripts with Adobe Audition 1.5. This bug is either to do with Audition, or Jaws, but we can safely say it is not to do with the scripts. You may find that when Audition 1.5 has focus, then you alt-tab away and back again the scripts will not load. This is because Jaws can't even seem to tell that Audition is in fact the program with focus. The only way to get around this is to make a script in your default script file that simply has the line: switchToConfiguration("audition")

Download

To download the current version of the scripts, or to view any documentation that is available for them, please follow the links directly below. If you want access to versions before the current one, please check out the archive

• JFW Audition 20050117-1 scripts (zip file)
• Changes file

Installation

Some versions of these scripts will come in a nice installer you can run and answer any questions it asks and the scripts will pretty much get installed automatically. How ever, for versions that only come as a zip file, please unzip the file and copy all the files inside to your JFW settings directory. For example: C:\program files\jaws510\settings\enu.

You will also have to open both audition.jss and audtips.jss separately in JFW script manager and press control+s to re-compile them.

Also in Adobe Audition you may have to check/uncheck a few things in the menus to get the scripts to work well, please read audition_readme.txt to find out more about this.

Contact info

If you have any questions or suggestions about the scripts, please feel free to email any of the authors, contact details can be found in the readme of the zip archive.

We are all happy to answer any questions to do with the scripts, but please try not to email us with questions simply about Adobe Audition or sound editing, we all have other jobs and don't really have the time to answer them.