[nabs-l] free screen readers
Anita Adkins
aadkins7 at verizon.net
Thu Jun 17 02:20:16 UTC 2010
Sorry to keep posting, but I just learned that I can use Reed, the voice I
like for JAWS with NVDA. This is great. To do this, I pressed insert+n,
down arrowed to preferences, pressed enter, down arrowed to synthesizers,
pressed enter, listened to the current setting so I could fix it if I
goofed, then up and down arrowed through the choices. The top one said sapi
4 microsoft something or other, and I pressed enter, and it was my JAWS
voice. Of course, I had to bring the menu back up, go back to preferences,
down arrow to voice settings, and then change the rate because I like my
speech a lot faster than the default. In this voice settings dialogue, I
discovered that there are also other various voices I could have chose. I
just chose American English. Just FYI. Anita
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Subject: [nabs-l] free screen readers
> Hi all,
>
> Those of you using free screen readers I'd like to know about them. I use
> Jaws currently and it works well mostly. I have Windows xp. But if a
> free screen reader can do most functions that will help me out; such as I
> can install it on computers I use for volunteering or on a family member's
> computer for ocassional use.
>
> What's your experience? What does it sound like? Does it have multiple
> voices? What applications does it work with? I want to try NVDA. Where
> do I get it and do i always need to be on the internet to make it work?
> How did you learn the commands of the reader? Other main readers have
> tutorials.
>
> If I install one and still have jaws on the pc will that work? I wonder
> if it eats up your memory having two screen readers.
>
> Thanks
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