[Social-sciences-list] Social-sciences-list Digest, Vol 3, Issue 2

[David bell]

There is a $95 package of Nuance voices for NVDA at www.atguys.com

I have been intending to buy them, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
Reports say they are good. 



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[mailto:social-sciences-list-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Christine
Szostak
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 3:04 PM
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It is really discouraging to see how much it costs. Since I am really tired 
of having to rely on an employer or other entity just to have equal access 
(as a grad student JAWS is really beyond my own means), I want to find a 
better option and NVDA seems to be filling that desire. I love the goal of 
the project.

  One thing I was wondering about with respect to NVDA is whether anyone 
here has recommendations  about  preferred options for voices. As someone 
with an American English accent, I am really  struggling with the accents of

the built in voices. I have checked out a few of the free synthesizer 
options, but they are not  much better:).
Many thanks,
Chris


Christine M. Szostak
Doctoral Candidate
Language Perception Laboratory
Department of Psychology, Cognitive Area
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
szostak.1 at osu.edu
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> NVDA is a very viable option.  I now volunteer teach a course to
> elderly blind (55 and older) people in Atlanta where I teach them the 
> basics
> of using Windows 7, Internet Explorer, and MS Word in eight lessons.  In 
> the
> spring, I used JAWS and will do so again starting in two weeks.  In the
> Spring of 2013, I will also teach the same course, but also teach it with
> NVDA.  Since the cost of getting JAWS or Window-Eyes is so cost 
> prohibitive
> for most of my students, I want to give the option of using a computer and
> having a screen reader that does not cost three times what a new computer
> would cost them.
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