Espeak per say is a very light-weight and responsive synthesis that I
could have into my machine. Gladly , it caters a wide variety of
languages and typically I used the user defined voice that could able or
to allow my mothers tongue - Tagalog into user defined boice. Anyway, I
use dennis and subsequently use max as well. I do hope this could allow
to further enhance and improve in the up coming release of nvda.

Robert Mendoza

On 4/21/2016 6:57 AM, Arlene wrote:

I'll third that. don’t get rid of E Speak. It's very responsive.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rosemarie Chavarria [mailto:knitqueen2007@gmail.com]
Sent: April-20-16 8:55 AM
To: nvda@groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] espeak

I second that. Don't get rid of e-speak. It's fast and responsive.



-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Kennedy [mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 6:30 AM
To: nvda@groups.io
Subject: [nvda] espeak

no don't get rid of espeak! keep espeak but 1. improve edward and 2.
make edward the default voice and 3. let the edward ;voice be tweaked to
make more klatt variants and 4. let edward voice have all pronunciation
abilities of non-klatt espeak.

--
sent from Mozilla Thunderbird email client

Hello All,

My most recent client is a student who is going to be taking a
number of statistics classes with a lot of material containing complex
mathematical formulae. I have repeatedly heard that NVDA is by far the
best screen reader when it comes to reading mathematical notation
correctly. That being said, I do not know either:

* how one goes about making NVDA do this
* what formatting is required in the electronic text, whether online
or in PDF files (or whatever), that is necessary for NVDA to work
with them

any guidance that's specific to NVDA, or even broader information
regarding dealing with mathematical notation assistive technology, would
be much appreciated. Any non-NVDA info can be taken off list, if that's
required, but this is such a peculiar niche that pulling in as much
information as possible would be good for future readers of the forum.

I have to believe that, no matter how good any of the screen readers or
the like have gotten, that there will be occasions where a real, live
human reader is going to be necessary to deal with certain texts,
particularly those only available "on paper." I've yet to find
anything, e.g. OpenBook or the like, that can "snap" math texts and
create anything functional from anything other than the bits of regular
text between the math. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Brian

Espeak per say is a very light-weight and responsive synthesis that I
could have into my machine. Gladly , it caters a wide variety of
languages and typically I used the user defined voice that could able or
to allow my mothers tongue - Tagalog into user defined boice. Anyway, I
use dennis and subsequently use max as well. I do hope this could allow
to further enhance and improve in the up coming release of nvda.

Robert Mendoza

On 4/21/2016 6:57 AM, Arlene wrote:

I'll third that. don’t get rid of E Speak. It's very responsive.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rosemarie Chavarria [mailto:knitqueen2007@gmail.com]
Sent: April-20-16 8:55 AM
To: nvda@groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] espeak

I second that. Don't get rid of e-speak. It's fast and responsive.



-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Kennedy [mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 6:30 AM
To: nvda@groups.io
Subject: [nvda] espeak

no don't get rid of espeak! keep espeak but 1. improve edward and 2.
make edward the default voice and 3. let the edward ;voice be tweaked to
make more klatt variants and 4. let edward voice have all pronunciation
abilities of non-klatt espeak.

--
sent from Mozilla Thunderbird email client

NVDA Conference is totally online; you just need Teamtalk 5 to participate.
The only problem one might encounter is the timing of the conference due to
time zone differences.

Hello.
I was just sitting on the site tonight reading the teamtalk instructions
and about the events.

Suddenly i got a message that i needed to install a firefox patch, it
was from a site that i did not recognize, so i stopped it, thanksfully.
But i was told my volnerability was 93%.
I just thought I should ask, was i smart in not letting that go through,
or is there really a patch for firefox.
Thank you

Scott

Hi all,

For the past few days I started to notice that there are multiple
threads with exactly the same or very similar subject line. For
example, I see multiple threads with the subject 'espeak' as the subject line.

I wonder...why do people have to create multiple threads with exactly
the same subject line? For instance, there should be only a single
thread with the 'Espeak' subject line, and all discussion about Espeak
should be in that thread.

From: Brian Vogel [mailto:britechguy@...]
Sent: Wednesday, 20 April 2016 4:27 PM
To: nvda@groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] NVDA AND APPLE

Christo,

          That depends on how, exactly, you define "would function with an Apple Macintosh."  I do not know of a version of NVDA that is designed to run under OS X proper (much like JAWS, ZoomText [if you want the Reader-Magnifier version], and Window Eyes).  However, if one installs a virtual Windows environment on a Mac you can run Windows-based software on the machine and be able to "flip-flop" easily between the virtual Windows environment and native OS X environment via Mission Control.

          Wine is one of the most commonly used virtual Windows environments, there are many others, and there's even WineBottler which allows you to tuck Windows applications into the OS X environment.

Brian

Well I got used to it.
There was a servey once maybe there needs to be another.
At any rate espeak as it is is fine, maybe it could be improved some
if at all possible.



On 21/04/2016 7:47 a.m., Laurie Mehta via Groups.io wrote:

I am confused...
I began noticing several e-mails defending E Speak and am wondering
what brought the issue up in the first place?

Many great reasons have already been given in favor of E Speak and I
agree with all of them. I hope that there is not actually any
consideration being given of dropping E Speak from NVDA. (smile)
-LM

--------------------------------------------
On Wed, 4/20/16, Christo de Klerk <christodeklerk@gmail.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: [nvda] DOING AWAY WITH ESPEAK
To: nvda@groups.io
Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2016, 8:29 AM

Hello from another South
African

eSpeak has some
features not found in other synthesisers which, in my
view, make it an essential synthesiser to have
around. It is the only
one I know which can
pronounce the International Phonetic Alphabet and
the Greek alphabet when using an English voice,
which is extremely
important for anyone
interested in linguistics. It reads diacritic
characters correctly which expensive
synthesisers like Ivona cannot even
do.
Apart from these linguistic features, eSpeak must be just
about the
most responsive synthesiser. It
also probably is the most accurate in
its
pronunciation of any synthesiser I know; in other words, it

mispronounces fewer words than other
synthesisers do. I think the author
of
eSpeak, Jonathan Duddington, did a truly wonderful job with
eSpeak.

Another point: if
you don't particularly care for the default voices
used by eSpeak, you can install and use the
MBrola voices which are also
supported by
eSpeak and which can pronounce everything eSpeak does.
These voices have a very natural sound. I use
the UK English voice.
Installing MBrola is
admittedly a mission, but once installed they
definitely are worth the trouble.

Kind regards

Other Christo (by the way, it
is not true that half the men in South
Africa are called Christo).





On 2016/04/20 1:15 PM, Jacob
Kruger wrote:
> Christo,
>
> Am also based in SA,
and, yes, eSpeak is my choice when using NVDA,
> partly due to it handling multiple
languages, but, also, since while
>
it's not particularly natural sounding, it is definitely
very
> clear-sounding, makes it easy to
be pretty sure what you're hearing it
> say, etc. - which is also pretty important
when working as a
> programmer/software
developer.
>
> In
other words, while understand why some people might prefer
somewhat
> natural sounding voices,
they're definitely not of too much interest
> to some of us, all the
time...<smile>
>
> Stay well
>
> Jacob Kruger
> Blind
Biker
> Skype: BlindZA
> "Roger Wilco wants to welcome
you...to the space janitor's closet..."
>
> On 2016-04-20 10:53
AM, Christo Vorster wrote:
>> Hi
list
>>
>> I do
not necessarily agree with the idea to do away with ESpeak.
I
>> believe that is a case of
"horses for causes."
>>
>> In South Africa, more specifically, at
the Institute for the Blind in
>>
Worcester where I am a lecturer, we extensively use ESpeak
to read
>> Afrikaans. And may I say,
the quality of ESpeak's Afrikaans is actually
>> very good.
>>
>> I won't mind if the developers do
away with ESpeak, but before that
>>
happens I want definite proof that the replacement program
has, at
>> least, the same quality,
preferably, better.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Christo
>>
>>
>
>
>








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I would love the speech player edward voice to support all of espeak's
phonemes and languages as well as the default voice. I like klatt
voices. but my issue with klatt edward is that it does not have all
the phonemes of original espeak. please fix this because i really like
the edward voice and wish i could just use it in any espeak-supported language!

You can have loads of fun if you ran say JAWS 3.7 under that VM. Have fun kid.


On 4/20/2016 10:40 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona wrote:

I figured it didn't run under
windows 98 but figured I would ask none the less

On 4/20/2016 7:37 PM, Lino Morales wrote:

Hank you insane. The answer is no.


On 4/20/2016 9:24 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona wrote:

Hello I know this is a long shot but figured I would ask here
does nvda work with windows 98? if so what version? I am playing around with a win98 vm and was curious if I could get nvda to run on the os
I would be using this for nastelgia purposes
thanks
Hank