[nfbcs] free windows screen reader (nVDA)

[Tracy Carcione]

I got a clearer voice, to my ear, by changing the accent NVDA was using. 
It's under Preferences, Voices, I think.  There's a great variety, and I
picked the one that was clearest to me, which was not the American accent,
to my surprise.

I like NVDA, but have not been able to get it to work with Spellcheck in
Word.  I see it listed as a known problem, but don't see any solution. 
Has anyone else had success with it?

Tracy

> 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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