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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Mike Sedmak
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2018 5:52 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] No voice, Power Point Slide Show view on Laptop with HDMI connected, NVDA restart fixes problem

Have you tried
Use f5 to start the slideshow
Use ESCAPE to close the slideshow
Use F5 again to start the slideshow

I find that starting the slideshow a second time works more consistently than the first try.

On 10/12/18, Rick <softwarethatworks@...> wrote:

Hello Joseph:



I will look into this as I try to replicate the problem using a TV
monitor instead of a projector and see if the sound actually gets rerouted.
However,
this only happens on the Power Point Slide Show window. All other
windows continue speaking out the default speaker. I would think that
all speech would be rerouted and not just the slide show.
Additionally, once I restart NVDA, I can open and close Power Point
and the speech continues to come out the default speaker when starting a slide show.



Also, Narrator does not exhibit this problem.



Rick



From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Joseph
Lee
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2018 3:37 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] No voice, Power Point Slide Show view on Laptop
with HDMI connected, NVDA restart fixes problem



Hi,

This may have to do with audio output redirection: when an HDMI cable
is connected, sound is sent through the cable, so NVDA may not
recognize that you've still got your internal sound card active. You
can ask NVDA to speak through a chosen sound card via
Synthesizer/output device combo box (Control+NVDA+S).

Cheers,

Joseph



From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io>
<nvda@nvda.groups.io <mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io> > On Behalf Of Rick
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2018 12:32 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io <mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io>
Subject: [nvda] No voice, Power Point Slide Show view on Laptop with
HDMI connected, NVDA restart fixes problem



I have 2 high-end Lenovo laptops with nVidia graphics cards. Both are
running Windows 10 Professional and Office 365 desktop apps. One
computer is brand new while the other is 3 years old. These are work
computers, so Windows and Office are updated within the last few
months and not necessarily running the absolute latest updates. I am
running the latest released version of NVDA and have no addin present.
I have Microsoft Speech API Version 5 as my voice.



If connected to projectors using the HDMI port, putting a Power Point
presentation into slide show mode (by pressing the F5 key) I lose all
speech output on that particular window. It doesn't matter if I am
using the internal speakers or am connected to a wired or wireless
headset. Alt tabbing to other windows and NVDA speaks just fine, but
not on the slide show window. Moving from slide to slide produces no
speech. If the HDMI connection is not present, NVDA speaks just fine
in slide show mode.



If I now restart NVDA with Power Point still displaying the slide show
and the HDMI connection still present, everything works as expected.
NVDA reads the slides as I navigate from slide to slide, using the
internal speakers or connected headset.



I tried restarting NVDA after booting the computer to see if it was a
problem with the autostart of NVDA completing prior to other parts of
the system completing initialization, but it still failed to speak in
slide show window until restarting NVDA after launching Power Point.



Rick