[nabs-l] NVDA Voices

[Arielle Silverman]

I could be wrong, but from my reading, it sounded like the Eloquence
voice does cost money, but that a couple of list members who have
already bought the Eloquence add-on are willing to share it with you
for free. Ben Bloomgren was one such person, at
ben.j.bloomgren at gmail.com
It was also stated that there are free voices other than the standard
NVDA voice that might be easier to understand, but those wouldn't be
Eloquence.
I have definitely had experiences where a piece of software, or a
speech synthesizer, made no sense to me when I first heard it, but
that I did start to understand it after days of practice and often
slowing the voice rate down a bit. I use JAWS and VoiceOver at a
slower speed than most blind people do because I want to understand
everything. I can understand why you might not have the time to
practice NVDA, but if you do have time, I think it's worthwhile to at
least try and see if your comprehension improves at all.

Best, Arielle

On 1/31/16, Elizabeth Mohnke via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello Karl,
>
> I guess what I still do not understand is how some people can claim that
> the
> Eloquence JAWS voice for NVDA is free while other people, including the
> NVDA
> website, claim that you have to pay for it. This is the part that confuses
> me.
>
> Thanks,
> Elizabeth
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Karl Martin
> Adam via nabs-l
> Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2016 4:39 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Karl Martin Adam <kmaent1 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] NVDA Voices
>
> Elizabeth,
>
> My understanding of the e-mail is that there are two versions of the
> Eloquence add on--an older one and an updated one.  You can download the
> older version from the first address he gives or the updated version from
> the second address.  He also gives you information on how to navigate each
> website to get to the Eloquence download.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Karl
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: Elizabeth Mohnke via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'"
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 15:37:33 -0500
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] NVDA Voices
>
> Hello Simon, ,
>
> Thank you for posting this information. However, I find it to be rather
> confusing and I am not able to understand it.
>
> Thanks,
> Elizabeth.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Simon
> Bonenfant
> via nabs-l
> Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2016 3:32 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Simon Bonenfant <sbonenfant2 at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] NVDA Voices
>
> hello, all if you want to download the eloquence driver for nvda you can
> get
> it from www.jeff.tdrealms.com and if you want to download the updated
> version that fixes crash codes you can download, it from www.grossgang.com
> keep in mind that the updated version changes the rate to a faster speed
> then jaws but you can chage that in voice settings when you go to
> www.jeff.tdrealms.com navigate to the  nvda addons page link then click the
> link that says, download the eloquence driver click that and install it and
> your good if you want to download the updated virsion you can go to
> www.grossgang.com then navigate to the tts link then nvda addons page and
> their will be a bunch of addons you can download for free hope this helps
> and good luck
>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Elizabeth Mohnke via nabs-l <
> nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
>  Hello All,
>
>  It seems to me there are different views and opinions regarding the  use
> of
> the Eloquence JAWS voice with NVDA. Some people claim it is  free while
> other people claim that you have to pay for it.
> According
>  to what I read on the NVDA website, the Eloquence voice is an add on  that
> you have to pay for in order to use it. So for those of you who  believe
> the
> Eloquence JAWS voice is free while the NVDA website states  that you have
> to
> pay for it, how are you able to get it for free? It  seems to me that if
> the
> Eloquence JAWS add on was free that it would  say this on the NVDA website.
> All of this different information from  different sources only confuses me.
> So if anyone can explain this to  me in a way that I might be able to
> understand, I would greatly  appreciate hearing from you.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Elizabeth
>
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