You can alt+tab to the speech viewer and then alt+f4 to close it.  The speech view shows a transcript of what NVDA reads.  Visually it sits on top of other windows so it is always visible - using the mouse, you can click on the window instead of alt+tabbing to it, but you then still need to alt+f4 to close it. You can also close it from NVDA's tools menu (the same way you opened it).

It gives you a window where you can review what was spoken from NVDA.

 

From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Peter Beasley
Sent: Samstag, 20. Oktober 2018 10:58
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Closing the Speech Viewer

 

What does speech viewer do? I have never used it.

 

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From: Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io
Sent: 19 October 2018 19:49
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Closing the Speech Viewer

 

Well think about this for a moment. You do not want to close that window

using normal things so as far as I'm aware, alt/f4 closes it. If any other

combination was use it might go away when its actually needed!

Brian

 

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From: "Rechell Schwartz via Groups.Io" <rechell_schwartz@...>

To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io>

Sent: Friday, October 19, 2018 4:41 PM

Subject: [nvda] Closing the Speech Viewer

 

 

Hello,

 

Is there a way to close the Speech Viewer? Whenever it is up, I can't bring

up the NVDA dialog (via Insert N) to change settings. I am given an error

message that another dialog is already open, and am forced to close NVDA.

 

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