[Social-sciences-list] NVDA and Voices

[David Andrews]

It is difficult to make a recommendation as to voices.  It is a 
highly subjective and personal topic you just have to hear them, and 
decide what you like.  I think most commercially available voices have demos.

I have demonstrated synthesized speech to thousands of people in my 
career, and what one person loves -- another will hate.

Dave

At 02:04 PM 9/2/2012, you wrote:
>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.