Travis Lost this thread, but now found it, wanted to send this site to you and friend. Before Screen Readers, There had to be readers! The site below is an auditory history of early speech synthesizer

Money Talks is a good serviceable checkbook register and check writing program. Much depends on how sophisticated your book keeping needs may be. You can download a functional version for trial. It is

Afternoon, Hold down the NVDA key + Control then use right and left arrows to select the speech option you wish to change, and then the up and down arrows to change the speed, tone or voice act. Remem

Hey, PayPal takes care of the currency exchange. That makes donating or purchasing items very simple. Rick

If your computer is an older one, it may actually have a battery that keeps clock functions running when the computer is turned off. I believe they were rechargeable, but rechargeable batteries will n

Joseph, I agree. Rick

Hi, Yes this combination has created occasional crashes here as well. I have no idea what the combination of factors causing this may be. Here, the crashes will happen repeatedly on a message when try

Jean you are correct. I prefer control + enter as the enter key is harder to miss.

Evening All, I have collections of both CDs and DVDs that need a database for management. I could create one in Excel but before doing that, I thought someone on the list might know of a product or a

Morning, I too read largely on my iPhone and iPad, including DAISY, Epub, TXT, HTML and PDF text not simple images. I have used Voice Dream reader for years. It is inexpensive and permits bookmarking,

Karen, What app are you using to read the audio book. Most that I have used have their own bookmarking feature. Rick

Karen, I first thought about audio book readers to purchase, but realized you would likely wish to do this without additional cost. At Microsoft Community, I found a way to use Windows Media Player to

Here is a link to an article that gives some basic things to consider when you are going to create an e-book. It is written specifically to address the issue using MS Word as a starting tool and what

Roger, Quick look online gave me this URL. Did not find just what you were hoping to find, but they may be able to point you in the right direction. Good luck with the, and if you find out, please sha

Well, it would help if the URL was there, right? http://www.speechfxinc.com/text-to-speech.html

George, Are you by any chance the George who fathered much of DAISY? If so, this is Rick Ely, who in the golden past was a project director at NCAM. If not that George, welcome to NVDA. Rick

Abby Fine Reader is a program used to scan text and save it to a variety of file formats. It can also take PDF image only files and convert them into readable text. And several other operations. I am

Arlene I would certainly invite others with more knowledge to comment, but I am quite sure there is not a one setting way to do this so that you would have access to audio description from all resourc

Bit confused am I. Thought the audio description feature in Ease of Access would display videos with AD without having to turn them on for every source. This is what the Audio Description setting in I

Rob, as of now, I don't think any screen reader can read subtitles. If those titles originated with the actual film, for all purposes they are just images, not real text to be spoken. If the titles ar