Most of the time I use NVDA but I have used narrator to get me out of jams from time to time.
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From: Don H
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2019 2:54 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Microsoft Narrator VS NVDA
Although Narrator is getting better NVDA still works much better on the things I do.
On 3/18/2019 4:49 PM, Brian Vogel wrote:
I have edited the topic here, and also on the Windows 10 forum, to reflect Narrator and NVDA.

Although Narrator is getting better NVDA still works much better on the things I do.

I have edited the topic here, and also on the Windows 10 forum, to reflect Narrator and NVDA.

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Hi everyone,
I just want to know what voice program you use most often. NVDA or Moderator? I'm impressed with your opinion. It is true that when I used the Moderator program and went to browse the Google chrome website, for example Facebook, there is somewhat different than NVDA.
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I have edited the topic here, and also on the Windows 10 forum, to reflect Narrator and NVDA.

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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

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Hi everyone,

I just want to know what voice program you use most often. NVDA or Moderator? I'm impressed with your opinion. It is true that when I used the Moderator program and went to browse the Google chrome website, for example Facebook, there is somewhat different than NVDA.

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Jackie,

           But, since virtually no one ever sets the NVDA level itself to "all," that's the reason for my little proviso in the last message, "under typical NVDA settings conditions." I think virtually anyone would be driven mad were NVDA's own level set to "all" as its default (or even temporarily).

           I thought about the dictionary, too, but wasn't sure how single characters (symbols, really) strung together would be treated.  It seems to me that the speech dictionaries use the concept of "word" and in most cases for the IPA reading we want character by character announcement whenever an IPA word is encountered.  If each IPA symbol were a word in the dictionary it seemed to me that this would prevent the very character by character announcement in all cases that I was seeking for non-whitespace-separated sequences of the IPA symbols wherever they occurred.   Perhaps I'm mistaken about that.

           Also, as an aside, does NVDA interpret lower case single characters as sometimes being pronounced differently than uppercase?   For example, if I were to use 'a' (sans the quotes, of course) as the replacement text for something might I get "ah" being pronounced while if I were to use 'A' I'd get what you'd expect for saying the name of the letter A?    One substitution I've made long ago in my default dictionary is that 'nvda' is replaced for the synth with 'NVDA' because the two were not treated as the equivalent, and the former came out as something close to phonotactically impossible under the rules of English pronunciation.
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I wonder if it is a simple case of decimal points being missed.

On 3/18/2019 9:05 AM, Richard Wells wrote:

> Yeah, I got wind speed out of the north-east at 88 miles per hour a

> couple days ago. It was totally calm outside. I don't think this is

> the fault of the add-on; it is most likely the data it is receiving

> which cannot be controlled by the author.

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>> I really appreciate all the effort that went into bring the weather

>> plus addon back.  Only issue I am having is that the information it

>> shows is randomly wrong. Examples are wind speeds, visibility, and

>> rainfall are wrong.

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I need to step away from this for the evening.  I have a history as a programmer and I still cannot comprehend in which orders these levels ensure that something is said versus when it isn't.

Based on Tony's description these seem to be "skip speaking the item levels," with none meaning always spoken, while what I'm getting from your description is the opposite.

It would be so much easier for me if these were numbers rather than English descriptions.   At least then the hierarchy order would be clear.

In any case, my main concern at the moment is if one has a series of symbols that compose a word, but those symbols are not letters, and you want to be certain that these symbols are always spoken each and every time they're encountered, what does one set the level to in order to ensure that.  They'd never be passed to the synth since it's the symbol name (replacement text) that will need to be spoken.
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Hello Everyone,

Is NVDA supposed to read each title of a PowerPoint slide twice? By default, it is reading the slide title twice at the beginning of each slide. I changed the order of the objects in the selection pane, but that only changed when it read the title for the second time. Is there a way to edit my slides so that NVDA will read the slide titles only once?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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