[nfbcs] free windows screen reader (nVDA)

[Ryan Mann]

Since you said that the NVDA speech could be a little better, I wanted you to know that there are a couple things you can do to try to make the NVDA speech better.  The first thing you can try is to tell NVDA to use the Microsoft SAPI 5 voices.  You can do this by doing the following:
1. Open the NVDA menu by hitting insert on the number pad and the n key at the same time.
2. Hit down arrow until you get to the preferences sub menu and press enter.
3. Arrow down to Synthesizer Preferences and press enter.
4. A dialog box will open and the first thing in the dialog box will be a drop-down box to choose the synthesizer.  I think you should just be able to hit down arrow until you hear Microsoft SAPI 5 and press enter.
If you don't like that speech either, you can download one of the alternative synthesizers at the web site http://www.nvda-project.org/wiki/FreeSpeechSynthesizerList.  I think the 
Svox Pico synthesizer sounds real good.  Let me know if you want help setting that up or if you have any other questions.


 
On Mar 3, 2011, at 10:04 PM, David Hertweck wrote:

> Has any one out there used the free windows screen reader NVDA.  I just down
> loaded it, and I have been playing with it for the last 2 days.  The speech
> could be a little better but it is quite impressive as to the level of
> accessability it gives.
> It comes with a talking installer.  Two types, one for installing it on a
> computer and the other for a portable installation, that is installing on a
> thumb drive that can be used on any computer.
> Having a little vision that is I can see objects on the screen but can not
> read them NVDA reads what is under the mouse thus making the mouse usable
> for me.
> 
> NVDA uses a lot of the same key commands as JAWS so it is a quite familiar
> interface.
> 
> For an open source free screen reader I highly recommend giving it a try.
> For some applications it gives better access than JAWS.
> So far I have tried it with the following and it gives super accessability.
> Windows XP standered windows like control pannal and explorer
> Office aplications word / XL ...
> Outlook.
> Internet explora lots of different web pages
> Visual steudio 6
> Dos prompt and python
> My micro processor IDE code warrior
> Winzip
> 
> Give it a try.
> 
> 
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