[gui-talk] having problems with the new Kindle for PC app

[Beth Wright]

Hi.

Thanks for the list of shortcuts.  The problem is, I can't seem to get them 
to work.  I get into the program, open a book, press the command to read or 
listen to instructions, and get complete silence.  Incidentally, this 
program is supposed to have its own text-to-speech voice, but I just get the 
one from the NVDA screenreader.  Looked in the menus and the help section, 
but can't find any information about turning off the NVDA speech off and 
turning the Kindle text-to-speech on.  Apparently, this is supposed to 
happen automatically, but it sure doesn't when I try to run it.

Beth Wright
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Loy" <loyrg2845 at gmail.com>
To: "Beth Wright" <beth.wright at mindspring.com>; "Discussion of the Graphical 
User Interface,GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] having problems with the new Kindle for PC app


> Have you installed the QT scrip from GWMicro? Below are shortcuts for the 
> Kindle.
> You can use keyboard shortcuts listed below to navigate the Kindle for
> PC with Accessibility Plugin application.
>
> Action
> Keyboard Shortcut
>
> Start reading (from top of page)
> CTRL R
>
> Pause/Restart reading (from current position)
> Space Bar or F6
>
> Read current sentence from beginning
> CTRL , (comma)
>
> Read Previous sentence
> CTRL Shift  Up Arrow (or Left Arrow)
>
> Skip forward one sentence
> CTRL Shift  Down Arrow (or Right Arrow)
>
> Add note to whole page
> CTRL Shift  N
>
> Highlight whole page
> CTRL Shift  H
>
> Toggle voice (male/female)
> CTRL Shift  V
>
> Increase speech rate
> Shift  (+)
>
> Decrease speech rate
> Shift  (-)
>
> Announce current location within a book
> CTRL  P
>
> Toggle continuous reading
> CTRL  Shift  C
>
> Jump to Reading Pane
> CTRL  Shift  R
>
> Read instructions
> CTRL  I
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Beth Wright" <beth.wright at mindspring.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 5:38 PM
> Subject: [gui-talk] having problems with the new Kindle for PC app
>
>
> Hi, listers.
>
> I'm sure by now that a lot of you have heard about the new Kindle for PC 
> app
> with accessibility plug-in that Amazon has just put out.  Well, I got all
> excited and tried it out on my PC, and can't get it to work.  I looked at
> the comments on
> www.blindbargains.com
> and found that somebody seemed to be having what sounded like a similar
> problem to mine.  He said that he'd resolved the problem when he 
> discovered
> that his system's qty libraries had a conflict with those of the
> application.  Well, I don't know a qty library from a punch in the nose, 
> but
> I wonder if there's any way for a non-techie like to get this thing to 
> work.
> Has anybody tried it yet?  I'm running Windows XP.  I have WindowEyes as 
> my
> screen reader, but this Kindle for PC program totally locks up with
> WindowEyes, so I tried it with NVDA.  I could get into the program, but
> can't get it to read books.  Does anybody have any suggestions as to how 
> to
> proceed?  Any help very much appreciated.
>
> Beth Wright
>
>
>
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