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Re: espeak
Chris Shook <chris0309@...>
Hey all,
In my opinion, Espeak is one of the better electronic synthesizers. It's a lot better than dectalk anyway, but having said that, I'm not that fond of Espeak, elequence, or dectalk. I prefer a more human sounding voice to read to me. It's probably best if we all remember two things. 1. NVDA is free. The screen reader itself surpasses the commercial screen readers in a lot of ways, and you don't have to pay a dime. 2. Other synthesizers are available for purchase. Codefactories vocalizer expressive and elequence is the cheapest package of them all and the vocalizer expressive voices are very good.
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Re: espeak
Devin Prater
I'd love the new Microsoft voices, but they're terribly laggy.
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Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 21, 2016, at 8:51 PM, Rosemarie Chavarria <knitqueen2007@...> wrote:
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Re: espeak
Rosemarie Chavarria
Hi, Brian,
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I like the David voice. He sounds pretty good--in fact, much better than microsoft Anna.
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From: Brian Vogel [mailto:britechguy@...] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 6:47 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] espeak Since I know there's at least one Windows 10 user that's commented here (and I think these might be available on Windows 8.1, too) you should definitely give the SAPI 5 synthesizer with either of the two voices included with Windows: Zira (female) or David (male). These are by far and away the most natural sounding voices I've heard in my years working with screen readers. If you're a fast typist they don't keep up with you on a letter-by-letter basis, if that's important. Brian -- The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. ~ H.L. Mencken
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Re: espeak
Since I know there's at least one Windows 10 user that's commented here (and I think these might be available on Windows 8.1, too) you should definitely give the SAPI 5 synthesizer with either of the two voices included with Windows: Zira (female) or David (male). These are by far and away the most natural sounding voices I've heard in my years working with screen readers. If you're a fast typist they don't keep up with you on a letter-by-letter basis, if that's important. Brian
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Re: NVDA dictation bridge
Hi Josh,
Thanks for posting. Lucy Greco and I will be talking about DictationBridge on NVDACon. It is the first lightening talk to be held on 22 April at 17:00 UTC.
Please be there. Pranav
From: Josh Kennedy [mailto:joshknnd1982@...]
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 12:55 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: [nvda] NVDA dictation bridge
hello and apology for the cross posting. I am part of a team that is wanting to expand access of blind screen reader users to dictation products. we are currently running an INDIEGOGO campaign to achieve this goal. we already have a prototype that can echo back dictation in to g-mail and other windows apps. we can't yet interact with all of the windows elements that we hope to but will do so shortly when we receive our funding. please share this campaign widely and think about joining us by donating to this free and open source product to make it available to every one Lucy lucia Greco --
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Re: espeak
Lino Morales <linomorales001@...>
Agree Peter. Try to understand it if you have a progressive hearing problem like my wife does. It ain't easy for her.
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On 4/21/2016 4:58 PM, Peter Beasley wrote:
As far as I am concerned, Espeak should be called C speak. The C standing for crap.
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Re: NVDA dictation bridge
Arianna Sepulveda
If you'd still like to donate without any of the perks, you can. Just thought I'd let you know that, in case you didn't already know. I just donated 30 bucks, and I shared the campaign to my Facebook, as well. Hopefully people from my friends list will donate. I have quite a bit of family on there, so we'll see.
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Thanks, Ari
On Apr 21, 2016, at 2:17 PM, Shaun Everiss <sm.everiss@...> wrote:
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Re: NVDA Con recordings?
Bhavya shah
Hi Anthony,
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We have several engineers doing the recording bit of the conference, so that will certainly be done. The recordings will be uploaded and be made publicly available soon after the culmination of the conference. Thanks.
On 4/22/16, Rosemarie Chavarria <knitqueen2007@...> wrote:
I think they will be recorded. --
Warm Regards Bhavya Shah Using NVDA (Non Visual Desktop Access) free and open source screen reader for Microsoft Windows To download a copy of the free screen reader NVDA, please visit http://www.nvaccess.org/ Using Google Talkback on Motorolla G second generation Lollipop 5.0.2 Reach me through the following means: Mobile: +91 7506221750 E-mail id: bhavya.shah125@... Skype id : bhavya.09
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Re: resume reading Word 2016
slery <slerythema@...>
Yes, that worked but enter does not do it, you have to use the space bar to actually get it to move to your last place.
Cindy
From: Supanut Leepaisomboon [mailto:supanut2000@...]
Hi, To activate the resume reading option, try pressing the f6 keys until NVDA announces the resume reading button, and then activate the button by pressing either space bar or enter.
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Let NVDACon countdown and conference begin!
Hello everyone,
We’re about to start NVDACon International 2016, starting with the conference opener/open forum at 00:00 UTC on April 22, 2016 (5 PM Pacific on the 21st). For more info on NVDACon and the schedule, go to www.nvda-kr.org/en/nvdacon.php. See you all there. Cheers, Joseph
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espeak:
Kenny Peyattt jr.
Hi I think that espeak sounds good. It is fast and responsive.
Kenny Peyatt
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Re: NVDA & Mathematical Notation
Bhavya, Thank you for this incredibly comprehensive response. I just returned from a marathon tutoring session with this client and will definitely pass along this information. While the computer science department from which I earned my bachelor's degree was developed out of the mathematics department, it's been several decades since I dealt with calculus, statistics, or anything vaguely like these on a daily basis. I certainly never had any experience with this in regard to issues unique to someone who is blind or visually-impaired, which is why I turned here for help. I will let my client know about the NVDACon as a whole and the Maths Accessibility session in particular. He has enough residual vision that he is not really a screen reader user, but using NVDA as a "mathematical reader" might be a very good thing for him to try. Thanks Again, Brian
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Re: NVDA Con recordings?
Rosemarie Chavarria
I think they will be recorded.
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From: Antony Stone [mailto:Antony.Stone@...] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 12:21 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: [nvda] NVDA Con recordings? Hi. Will the sessions for NVDA Con be recorded, so that those of us who either can't join in at the time, due to timezone differences, or other commitments, or else can't run Teamviewer, can hear afterwards what took place? Thanks, Antony. -- Software development can be quick, high quality, or low cost. The customer gets to pick any two out of three. Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me.
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NVDA Stopped Reading Web Sites; Error Messages in Log
Rich De Steno <ironrock@...>
Regarding my new problem of NVDA failing to read web sites in both Firefox and IE on my Windows 10 computer, pasted below is the last part of the NVDA log just retrieved through NVDA. Note several references to errors. Is this related to the problem?
NVDA initialized ERROR - queueHandler.pumpAll (17:51:23): error in generator 42 Traceback (most recent call last): File "queueHandler.pyc", line 72, in pumpAll File "sayAllHandler.pyc", line 149, in readTextHelper_generator File "treeInterceptorHandler.pyc", line 143, in makeTextInfo File "virtualBuffers\__init__.pyc", line 196, in __init__ File "textInfos\offsets.pyc", line 303, in __init__ File "virtualBuffers\__init__.pyc", line 214, in _getStoryLength WindowsError: [Error 1775] A null context handle was passed from the client to the host during a remote procedure call -- Rich De Steno
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Likely Reasons for Unintentional Creation of Duplicate Threads
Likely Reasons for Unintentional Thread Duplicates At least one person has asked how duplicate threads come into existence. While the following list is not necessarily comprehensive, it’s what I’ve been able to determine so far from detective work. For either e-mail or web participants: · Changing the subject in any way at all. Correcting spelling, adding capitalization, or introducing a new subject when replying to an ongoing thread all cause a completely new thread to be created. It is best to avoid any change to the subject other than what the groups.io software or most e-mail clients add automatically (which, by the way, is an, “Re: “, in front of the original subject) if your intention is to keep it associated with an existing thread. When you really intend to spin-off a new thread based upon a sub-topic or tangent from an ongoing thread then changing the subject will cause this to occur. For those participating by e-mail: · If your e-mail client does not follow the standard “Re: “ addition, and uses the equivalent abbreviation from a non-English language (I’ve observed “AW: “) it will cause a new thread to be generated. This is also the case if your e-mail client “stacks” the “Re: “ or equivalent. There have been messages with, “AW: AW: “ in front of the subject and I doubt that anyone is typing those by hand. The stacked reply notation is now extremely uncommon and can most likely be turned off in a given e-mail client. · If you are responding to a plain-text digest and are not using the “Reply to this Message” link at the end of a message and filling in the web form I am guessing that often an unintended new thread is being created most likely due to cut and paste errors for the message subject when composing an e-mail reply. As I mentioned earlier, using the Full-Featured digest gets around this issue because the “Respond to Group” link at the end of each message is set up to open a new message in your e-mail client with the subject formatted precisely as it should be to avoid a new thread from being created. It’s also nice that if you want to reply privately to the person who wrote the message you’re responding to you can simply use the “Respond to Sender” link instead.
None of the above is meant to be accusatory toward any individual, but is based on what I’ve clearly seen happening in the online forum. I will be happy to assist anyone personally if they need to figure out how to tweak their e-mail client or in any other way to stop duplicate threads.
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Re: espeak
Rosemarie Chavarria
Hi, Anthony,
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I agree here. I've tried other synths and E-speak is the clearest of them all. I'm using the Max variant and it's very clear. Instead of complaining, we should be grateful for such a great screen reader like NVDA. Mick and Jamy have done a terrific job with it. Rosemarie
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From: Antony Stone [mailto:Antony.Stone@...] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 2:22 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] espeak If anyone can suggest an open source synthesiser which is better than espeak, and which NVDA could include, then please suggest it. Complaints such as "X is crap" without any proposal for what would be a better alternative, are rather useless. Do people here really expect Mick and Jamie, plus the other developers of NVDA, to create a speech synthesiser as well as a screenreader? By all means offer better alternatives to what is available, but otherwise please remember that this is free software, and if you don't like what it can do, there are more expensive alternatives. Antony. On Thursday 21 April 2016 at 22:58:24, Peter Beasley wrote: As far as I am concerned, Espeak should be called C speak. The C-- Users don't know what they want until they see what they get. Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me.
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Re: espeak
Antony Stone
If anyone can suggest an open source synthesiser which is better than espeak,
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and which NVDA could include, then please suggest it. Complaints such as "X is crap" without any proposal for what would be a better alternative, are rather useless. Do people here really expect Mick and Jamie, plus the other developers of NVDA, to create a speech synthesiser as well as a screenreader? By all means offer better alternatives to what is available, but otherwise please remember that this is free software, and if you don't like what it can do, there are more expensive alternatives. Antony.
On Thursday 21 April 2016 at 22:58:24, Peter Beasley wrote:
As far as I am concerned, Espeak should be called C speak. The C standing --
Users don't know what they want until they see what they get. Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me.
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Re: NVDA dictation bridge
Wow nice campaign but to pricy.
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The perks way out of my range bar the 50 dollar one and I want something a bit more than a thank you tweat.
On 22/04/2016 7:25 a.m., Josh Kennedy wrote:
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Re: AW: Is there seriously a possibility of "DOING AWAY WITH ESPEAK"? DOING AWAY WITH ESPEAK
well espeak ng sounds a bit better but not much more.
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On 21/04/2016 10:13 p.m., Mallard wrote:
I think Espeak sounds much much better in Android. Why could that be?
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Re: nvda-kor.org warning problem message
well then its a fake patch.
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Remember in most cases unless otherwise or you have not load autoupdate services mozilla programs and addons actualy make prity sure you never see their updates and while that could be a problem if things screw up, you in theory don't need to see unless it says its why I use their stuff.
On 22/04/2016 5:51 a.m., Scott VanDeWalle wrote:
Hello Sean.
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