[nfbcs] NVDA voices

[Buddy Brannan]

Ah. My brain must be broken. I read it as "are the NVDA voices SAPI", which they aren't, but SAPI versions exist. Meaning you can't just run what you have installed with NVDA, you have to get another installer. 
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On Jan 17, 2012, at 12:08 PM, John Heim wrote:

> But that's exactly what he asked for. Is the nvda voice available as SAPI5 so he could use it in his game? The answer is yes.
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>> This is true, but that's a different installer from what comes with NVDA.
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>> On Jan 17, 2012, at 10:43 AM, John Heim wrote:
>> 
>>> Espeak has a SAPI5 version. It can be downloaded from the nvda sourceforge site at the URL I posted in my previous message.
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>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> Wow. If you mean Espeak,the voices in your computer game must be particularly horrible.
>>>> 
>>>> Still, while NVDA can use SAPI compatible voices, its use of, say, Espeak or Pico, those are not SAPI at all.
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>>>> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
>>>> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
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>>>> 
>>>> On Jan 17, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Tracy Carcione wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Does anyone know what the voices are that NVDA uses?
>>>>> I have some self-voicing computer games that use SAPI5 voices, and the one
>>>>> one game has is not so good.  I wonder if the NVDA voices are SAPI5, and I
>>>>> could copy a file over to the right folder and get a better voice.
>>>>> Tracy
>>>>> 
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