- Gene, as Joseph has indicated, the issue with the "clipping off" of first characters or the beginning of a word is virtually always related to power-saving settings where the audio device is turned

Hi, That's an ideal solution, for which I think the best course of action to bring that into "solid" existence is keep sending feedback to sound card makers. Note that this "ideal" solution has

Perhaps the easiest solution, if sound card manufacturers would cooperate, would be to have one accessible command to turn all effects off. Of course, effects should be accessible, but this would

Hi, This is mainly caused by power saving measures taken by the sound card based on what the driver tells it to do. Several solutions were explored by NVDA developers and add-ons community, including

- It actually could be, depending on the experience of the person(s) I'm discussing it with. I would not expect a physicist to try to have a conversation with me about physics in the same way he or

Do many effects cause problems or mainly the cutting off after inactivity? Do developers have information about that so it can be determined if the time and effort would be worth the results? Mhy

Hi, I think a better approach is contacting sound card manufacturers directly and explain the situation to them. Talking to synthesizer makers may or may not help, as some synths were developed by

Hi, Of course there will be people who will ask us (developers) to keep supporting obsolete software, with the understanding that certain policies are beyond a user’s control. Even then, we have to

I agree Enes's opinion. Manufacturers implement many different configurations for their sound cards, and this distorts the screen reader's audio, occasionally down the synthesizers's

Brian, out of curiousity, what sort of issues would this cause. I really despise the software enhancements that come with soundcards, and think it is laptop manufacturerers trying to make

Hello Joseph, This would also bring up the obligation of developers to support obsolete software, such as win 7/8, and soon to be 8.1

- Then if one is using said synthesizers the synth makers should, as part of their installation documentation, tell you specifically what should be turned off. Or, better yet, have the capability of

Hi, On one hand, a dedicated API to turn off enhancements may solve this issue (which to me is a symptom). But I would imagine people using older Windows releases or driver versions would ask NVDA

But Brian, the problem remains that these enhancements mess up audio output of NVDA, especially compression effects, due to eloquence being a formant synthesizer, probably what happens is it

- It could also introduce a raft of problems as well. Better that NVDA (or anything, really) be able to work whether or not enhancements are on or not. -- Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version

I really think it would be benefitial though. Audio effects probably were not designed to be used or to enhance screen reader use. Also, there only a handful of companies producing the

Hi, Alpha at the moment. Cheers, Joseph

Hi, This will require a close collaboration with sound card manufacturers and driver providers so an API set can be created to control this behavior. Cheers, Joseph

Hello Joseph, What I think would be extremely useful, is if microsoft added a screen reader flag or something that automatically would disable all enhancements for audio cards. Often I

In which branch? -- Sean Email: seantolstoyevski@... GitHub: SeanTolstoyevski