Well, the choppiness is not so noticable, but it is present and also words get cut off unnecessarily.  I think it isn't an NVDA problem but a problem with Sapi itself because It doesn't happen with ESpeak.  I have managed to change the rate through windows but I wish the rate could be slightly faster though, and I would not like to use the boost checkbox on NVDA itself.

Did you raise the native 1 core voices to 100 percent and control the nvda slider after that? That tends to help me there. I have the rate boost on and I don't notice any choppyness.

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On 18 Dec 2019, at 15:03, Jaffar Sidek wrote:

Hi.  I have increased the speech rate of my NVDA One Core voices to the maximum 100% but it is still rather draggy.  I tried to boost the rate via the NVDA speech settings but I don't like the result because speech then becomes more choppy and less intelligible even when I drop the rate down after applying the boost.  Is there a way I can speed up the speech via the native windows speech settings itself?  Thanks for any help.  Cheers!

I have no idea how you can work with their new program. I've moved to OneDrive because there were so many unlabeled buttons in the new program it was making my head hurt. I'd remove dropbox completely if I wasn't sharing folders with people.

From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Robert Kingett
Sent: 19 December 2019 01:14
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] dropbox issue

I have no idea how you can work with their new program. I've moved to OneDrive because there were so many unlabeled buttons in the new program it was making my head hurt. I'd remove dropbox completely if I wasn't sharing folders with people.

I have no idea how you can work with their new program. I've moved to OneDrive because there were so many unlabeled buttons in the new program it was making my head hurt. I'd remove dropbox completely if I wasn't sharing folders with people.

Hi.

Seems dropbox has fixed their clogged server, and the file is going fast

again, wander what it was.

The boost adds extra distortion, and artifacts even with ESpeak. I
suspect it's the same with one core voices as well, I don't know. I have
noticed that the sound clips when I start NVDA unless the sound card is
already open, and the first tiny bit of speech will get clipped off as
well, but once it has started speaking and has the sound card open, it
is fine. I'm not sure if this has to do with this sound card being
configured in a way NVDA doesn't like, (it only supports 24-bit audio),
or if there is something with NVDA, since all other sounds are fine.

Did you raise the native 1 core voices to 100 percent and control the nvda slider after that? That tends to help me there. I have the rate boost on and I don't notice any choppyness.

Sarah Alawami, owner of TFFP. . For more info go to our website. This is also our libsyn page as well.

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On 18 Dec 2019, at 15:03, Jaffar Sidek wrote:

Hi.  I have increased the speech rate of my NVDA One Core voices to the maximum 100% but it is still rather draggy.  I tried to boost the rate via the NVDA speech settings but I don't like the result because speech then becomes more choppy and less intelligible even when I drop the rate down after applying the boost.  Is there a way I can speed up the speech via the native windows speech settings itself?  Thanks for any help.  Cheers!

Hi.  I have increased the speech rate of my NVDA One Core voices to the maximum 100% but it is still rather draggy.  I tried to boost the rate via the NVDA speech settings but I don't like the result because speech then becomes more choppy and less intelligible even when I drop the rate down after applying the boost.  Is there a way I can speed up the speech via the native windows speech settings itself?  Thanks for any help.  Cheers!

Hi.

This is a 2 part message with a 2 part subject.

I could do 2 messages but both topics are short so I won't.

1.  passwords should and I repeat not be saved anywhere especially in a web app aparently they are not secure.

On the security note, its been confirmed today via winaero, that microsoft security essentials will end its little stand alone life at the end of windows 7 lifespan.

You should all know when that is, its been bandied via microsoft via its addware compaigns, its websites, its news, its updates, this list, its various social network channels, in other words, its next month.

So another reason to upgrade to windows 10 is simply you will not have any antivirus protection at all.

I suspect with msse out, every other security manufacturer will probably follow suit in short order.

Unlike xp, at least for a while, a lot of the programs that ran on windows 7, will continue to be updated maybe for a bit but still.

Lastly, what is up with dropbox.

Someone or thing is really bogging down the platform, the update to the software which usually is done in minutes is taking hours and hours, failing a lot.

I have had to resume downloads multiple times.

Once I get it done on my system I will run the update on each system with it from a flash drive.

I am not sure if it effects the entire network on their end but something is consuming their entire cloud space bandwidth.

I don't use it for much but if you needed a reason to not use it, that would be it.

google itself seems fine the only time they dropped out is when their datacentre close to us failed.

They probably do more than dropbox ever did but yeah dropbox is running slowly.

One license can be used on three machines.


-----Original Message-----
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Pele West
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 4:10 AM
To: NVDA <nvda@nvda.groups.io>
Subject: [nvda] NVDA and Eloquence

Hi Everyone

I have loaded the Beta version of NVDA 3 and find Eloquence no longer
works.

I have been to the Code Factory site to register and pay for it, but I
cannot find out how many computers the registered version is licenced for.

Do I need a licence for each computer, or does one licence cover a number
of
PCs?

Thanks

Pele West

Hi,
Ah, touchscreens...
1. Moving around text inside a window: this is done with what's called "text mode" (you can toggle between at least two touch modes by doing a three finger single tap; I'll explain why I said "at least two modes" below). In text mode, one finger flick right or left will move to next or previous character, two finger flick right or left will move to next or previous word, and one finger flick down or up will move to next or previous line. This is in relation to review cursor.
2. Thunderbird email entries: if the logic from other email clients is applicable, then yes, you can move between messages by using one finger flick left or right in object mode.
3. Touchscreen tutorial: already covered by yours truly as part of Welcome to NVDA series.

As for my remark on touch modes above: yes, I did say "at least two modes". The reason: Enhanced Touch Gestures add-on (I know, I find myself advertising my add-ons on a monthly basis...). IN addition to text and object modes, Enhanced Touch Gestures adds two additional touch modes:
* Synth settings: used to change synthesizer settings on the fly such as rate and voice (two finger flick left or right to step through settings, two finger flick up or down to change settings).
* Web: used to navigate between different web elements (one finger flick up or down to go through web elements (regular/normal, headings, links, form fields, frames, tables, landmarks), one finger flick left or right to move amongst elements).
But that's a small taste of what that add-on can do (it is perhaps one of the most powerful add-ons out there besides Remote and Windows 10 App Essentials).
Cheers,
JOseph

-----Original Message-----
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of John Isige
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 9:13 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: [nvda] Using NVDA on a tablet.

Hey all. I know this has been talked about in here before, but it seems to have been pretty brief. I don't want a whole crash course on using a tablet, I'll keep it to a simple use case.


I have QRead, or Notepad, or whatever open with some text. I pull the tablet off of the keyboard, so now it's a tablet, it's a Surface Pro, if that matters. I can move around on the desktop or whatever to get to a program, and double tap it, and it will open. I still haven't figured out if that puts me in its window, so let's say the window's already open. How do I:


1. Get to the window, and put focus in the window?


2. Make the window read, i.e. a say-all, the equivalent of NVDA-a in the laptop layout? I assume touching anywhere on the screen will stop it.


I've briefly tried messing with this, and although I get the basic
swiping to objects and such, I still haven't figured out what happens
once an object is active, lie what I'm talking about here. I don't know
how to get inside of it and manipulate the insides, so to speak, with
touch gestures. As another example, assume I open Thunderbird. I'm not
sure the individual messages get treated as objects, do they?


If somebody can cover this use case, I can start playing with things,
and I can see about making a tutorial, at least in text and possibly
audio, since I know I'm not the only person to ask about this.