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Hello, everyone,
I recently started having this issue--probably a few days ago. I've
done everything I can think of, save updating Windows 10 to the
absolute latest version--though I don't think that should make that
much of an issue, since I'm only on the release before this latest
update. Anyhow, here's my issue. I was running NVDA when all of a
sudden, it stopped speaking. I booted up Narrator and exited NVDA then
tried to bring up NVDA again, with no luck. I then tried restarting
the computer, and still nothing changed. I left the computer alone for
a few days, but when I came back to it today, I still had the same
problem. I figured, at this point, that I had nothing to lose, and
uninstalled and reinstalled NVDA, getting the latest version from
NVDA's website. The install screen spoke, but as soon as it was
installed, I suddenly had no speech. I have no idea what I can do at
this point. I have absolutely no ad-ons installed, the volume is up in
the synthesizer dialogue, and I switched to ESpeak, just in case.
Absolutely nothing has worked. I know my Surface isn't muted,
obviously, because I'm getting speech both from Narrator and from
JAWS.
Does anyone know what this issue could possibly be? I'm extremely
frustrated. I haven't used JAWS in quite a long time, and rather
dislike it. The caps lock key no longer works as the JAWS key for a
laptop, and I really miss the synth ring. Also, I feel like JAWS isn't
as good on the web as NVDA. I had to get my husband's help with
accepting the terms of service for a public WiFi network, because I
couldn't even use the stupid JAWS cursor because of the aforementioned
caps lock JAWS key issue. I would have had no such issue with this
webpage with NVDA. If I couldn't navigate to it with the standard
keys, I could most-likeley have gotten to it with Object Nav. Arrowing
through the page with JAWS just got me to some explanatory text, and
the stupid accept terms of service checkbox, but never to the button
to finish the process of connecting. Anyhow, I'm hoping someone has
some suggestions.
Thanks,
Ari
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Hello, Arianna. That really is frustrating. I guess my first question
is whether your output sound card is correct.
Pleas press control + NVDA key + s to reach the synthesizer menu. Tab
once to the audio output device & ensure that it's set to your
speakers/headphones of choice. Tab to ok & activate the button, &
let's see if that helps.
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On 3/12/21, Arianna Sepulveda <englishrider91@...> wrote: Hello, everyone,
I recently started having this issue--probably a few days ago. I've
done everything I can think of, save updating Windows 10 to the
absolute latest version--though I don't think that should make that
much of an issue, since I'm only on the release before this latest
update. Anyhow, here's my issue. I was running NVDA when all of a
sudden, it stopped speaking. I booted up Narrator and exited NVDA then
tried to bring up NVDA again, with no luck. I then tried restarting
the computer, and still nothing changed. I left the computer alone for
a few days, but when I came back to it today, I still had the same
problem. I figured, at this point, that I had nothing to lose, and
uninstalled and reinstalled NVDA, getting the latest version from
NVDA's website. The install screen spoke, but as soon as it was
installed, I suddenly had no speech. I have no idea what I can do at
this point. I have absolutely no ad-ons installed, the volume is up in
the synthesizer dialogue, and I switched to ESpeak, just in case.
Absolutely nothing has worked. I know my Surface isn't muted,
obviously, because I'm getting speech both from Narrator and from
JAWS.
Does anyone know what this issue could possibly be? I'm extremely
frustrated. I haven't used JAWS in quite a long time, and rather
dislike it. The caps lock key no longer works as the JAWS key for a
laptop, and I really miss the synth ring. Also, I feel like JAWS isn't
as good on the web as NVDA. I had to get my husband's help with
accepting the terms of service for a public WiFi network, because I
couldn't even use the stupid JAWS cursor because of the aforementioned
caps lock JAWS key issue. I would have had no such issue with this
webpage with NVDA. If I couldn't navigate to it with the standard
keys, I could most-likeley have gotten to it with Object Nav. Arrowing
through the page with JAWS just got me to some explanatory text, and
the stupid accept terms of service checkbox, but never to the button
to finish the process of connecting. Anyhow, I'm hoping someone has
some suggestions.
Thanks,
Ari
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I'll take a stab at this, since this sounds exactly like a problem I
had years ago, according to the email I just found it looks like I was
running NVDA 2011.2. The email I found suggested that my NVDA.ini file
got screwed up, but wouldn't that get removed when NVDA is
uninstalled? If I remember right, uninstalling and reinstalling worked
for me, but clearly that hasn't worked for you. I know some programs
however, such as Audacity, leave your configuration profile after you
uninstall them, but I'm not sure if NVDA does that or not. I can't
believe it's been 10+ years since I've been using NVDA, and I had
forgotten some of the questions I had asked over the years on the
previous support lists run by Freelists.
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On 3/12/21, Arianna Sepulveda <englishrider91@...> wrote: Hello, everyone,
I recently started having this issue--probably a few days ago. I've
done everything I can think of, save updating Windows 10 to the
absolute latest version--though I don't think that should make that
much of an issue, since I'm only on the release before this latest
update. Anyhow, here's my issue. I was running NVDA when all of a
sudden, it stopped speaking. I booted up Narrator and exited NVDA then
tried to bring up NVDA again, with no luck. I then tried restarting
the computer, and still nothing changed. I left the computer alone for
a few days, but when I came back to it today, I still had the same
problem. I figured, at this point, that I had nothing to lose, and
uninstalled and reinstalled NVDA, getting the latest version from
NVDA's website. The install screen spoke, but as soon as it was
installed, I suddenly had no speech. I have no idea what I can do at
this point. I have absolutely no ad-ons installed, the volume is up in
the synthesizer dialogue, and I switched to ESpeak, just in case.
Absolutely nothing has worked. I know my Surface isn't muted,
obviously, because I'm getting speech both from Narrator and from
JAWS.
Does anyone know what this issue could possibly be? I'm extremely
frustrated. I haven't used JAWS in quite a long time, and rather
dislike it. The caps lock key no longer works as the JAWS key for a
laptop, and I really miss the synth ring. Also, I feel like JAWS isn't
as good on the web as NVDA. I had to get my husband's help with
accepting the terms of service for a public WiFi network, because I
couldn't even use the stupid JAWS cursor because of the aforementioned
caps lock JAWS key issue. I would have had no such issue with this
webpage with NVDA. If I couldn't navigate to it with the standard
keys, I could most-likeley have gotten to it with Object Nav. Arrowing
through the page with JAWS just got me to some explanatory text, and
the stupid accept terms of service checkbox, but never to the button
to finish the process of connecting. Anyhow, I'm hoping someone has
some suggestions.
Thanks,
Ari
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Rob Hudson <rob_hudson3182@...>
NVDA does keep the c:\users\x\AppData\Roaming\NVDA folder after uninstalling. Delete that after you uninstall, then reinstall again.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Cavanaugh" <cavbob1993@...> To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 17:52:02 -0800 Subject: Re: [nvda] No speech when running NVDA. I'll take a stab at this, since this sounds exactly like a problem I
had years ago, according to the email I just found it looks like I was
running NVDA 2011.2. The email I found suggested that my NVDA.ini file
got screwed up, but wouldn't that get removed when NVDA is
uninstalled? If I remember right, uninstalling and reinstalling worked
for me, but clearly that hasn't worked for you. I know some programs
however, such as Audacity, leave your configuration profile after you
uninstall them, but I'm not sure if NVDA does that or not. I can't
believe it's been 10+ years since I've been using NVDA, and I had
forgotten some of the questions I had asked over the years on the
previous support lists run by Freelists.
On 3/12/21, Arianna Sepulveda <englishrider91@...> wrote:
Hello, everyone,
I recently started having this issue--probably a few days ago. I've
done everything I can think of, save updating Windows 10 to the
absolute latest version--though I don't think that should make that
much of an issue, since I'm only on the release before this latest
update. Anyhow, here's my issue. I was running NVDA when all of a
sudden, it stopped speaking. I booted up Narrator and exited NVDA then
tried to bring up NVDA again, with no luck. I then tried restarting
the computer, and still nothing changed. I left the computer alone for
a few days, but when I came back to it today, I still had the same
problem. I figured, at this point, that I had nothing to lose, and
uninstalled and reinstalled NVDA, getting the latest version from
NVDA's website. The install screen spoke, but as soon as it was
installed, I suddenly had no speech. I have no idea what I can do at
this point. I have absolutely no ad-ons installed, the volume is up in
the synthesizer dialogue, and I switched to ESpeak, just in case.
Absolutely nothing has worked. I know my Surface isn't muted,
obviously, because I'm getting speech both from Narrator and from
JAWS.
Does anyone know what this issue could possibly be? I'm extremely
frustrated. I haven't used JAWS in quite a long time, and rather
dislike it. The caps lock key no longer works as the JAWS key for a
laptop, and I really miss the synth ring. Also, I feel like JAWS isn't
as good on the web as NVDA. I had to get my husband's help with
accepting the terms of service for a public WiFi network, because I
couldn't even use the stupid JAWS cursor because of the aforementioned
caps lock JAWS key issue. I would have had no such issue with this
webpage with NVDA. If I couldn't navigate to it with the standard
keys, I could most-likeley have gotten to it with Object Nav. Arrowing
through the page with JAWS just got me to some explanatory text, and
the stupid accept terms of service checkbox, but never to the button
to finish the process of connecting. Anyhow, I'm hoping someone has
some suggestions.
Thanks,
Ari
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A couple things you can try, in addition to Jackie's suggestion:
First, in NVDA, press NVDA+control+r three times quickly, which will reset your configuration to factory defaults.
If something did get screwed up with your configuration, just removing NVDA might not fix that.
Second, with NVDA and Narrator running:
Open the Sound Volume Mixer (windows+r, sndvol, enter).
Make sure that NVDA doesn't have its volume down there, and that it's not muted.
Before you try this, make sure NVDA isn't set to no-speech--have it on Espeak, preferably. I know you checked that already, but something could be going on with your configurations.
It may be worth trying this idea before resetting your configuration, in case you don't need to reset.
Luke
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Hi Ari
If you have sounds when you go to start nvda does it make a sound then go quite? If you use the windows key + letter D will it talk on the desk top. as at times when it goes to the task bar people think it is not working.
Using the arrow keys will speak out any thing there.
You might have speech mode turned off If this is the case use the nvda key + letter S to toogle it to speech mode talk.
You can also reset nvda back to factory defaults if it comes up or use the shortcut nvda key + ctrl key + the letter R 3 times unless you do it through the menu.
but make sure if you do this after you go through the menu to load it at startup etc this is the one you get whenn you do a fresh install of nvda with setting desktop etc.
make sure you get this message. You might have to restart nvda for it to come up.
Hopefully that fixes the problem.
I am guessing the nvda.ini file might of got corrupted some how.
If this is the case I think you said you uninstalled nvda from the computer there is another place to delete the settings from.
Press the windows key + the letter R then type in the following %appdata% then press the enter key. It will give you a list of folders locate the nvda folder then delete it out then use the alt key + f4 key to close that screen .
That nice fresh copy of nvda install that to the pc and it should be right to go.
You might have to use another screen reader narrator will do the trick to do the above mentioned or a pair of eyes.
Gene nz
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On 13/03/2021 2:26 pm, Arianna Sepulveda wrote: Hello, everyone,
I recently started having this issue--probably a few days ago. I've
done everything I can think of, save updating Windows 10 to the
absolute latest version--though I don't think that should make that
much of an issue, since I'm only on the release before this latest
update. Anyhow, here's my issue. I was running NVDA when all of a
sudden, it stopped speaking. I booted up Narrator and exited NVDA then
tried to bring up NVDA again, with no luck. I then tried restarting
the computer, and still nothing changed. I left the computer alone for
a few days, but when I came back to it today, I still had the same
problem. I figured, at this point, that I had nothing to lose, and
uninstalled and reinstalled NVDA, getting the latest version from
NVDA's website. The install screen spoke, but as soon as it was
installed, I suddenly had no speech. I have no idea what I can do at
this point. I have absolutely no ad-ons installed, the volume is up in
the synthesizer dialogue, and I switched to ESpeak, just in case.
Absolutely nothing has worked. I know my Surface isn't muted,
obviously, because I'm getting speech both from Narrator and from
JAWS.
Does anyone know what this issue could possibly be? I'm extremely
frustrated. I haven't used JAWS in quite a long time, and rather
dislike it. The caps lock key no longer works as the JAWS key for a
laptop, and I really miss the synth ring. Also, I feel like JAWS isn't
as good on the web as NVDA. I had to get my husband's help with
accepting the terms of service for a public WiFi network, because I
couldn't even use the stupid JAWS cursor because of the aforementioned
caps lock JAWS key issue. I would have had no such issue with this
webpage with NVDA. If I couldn't navigate to it with the standard
keys, I could most-likeley have gotten to it with Object Nav. Arrowing
through the page with JAWS just got me to some explanatory text, and
the stupid accept terms of service checkbox, but never to the button
to finish the process of connecting. Anyhow, I'm hoping someone has
some suggestions.
Thanks,
Ari
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Jumping in late to this one - but how did you go Ari? I see everyone suggested basically all the things I would have.
If all else fails, you can send me a copy of your NVDA log which you should find in your %temp% folder, although resetting the settings should fix it (NVDA+control+r three times quickly) if nothing else.
Kind regards
Quentin.
Hi Ari
If you have sounds when you go to start nvda does it make a sound then
go quite? If you use the windows key + letter D will it talk on the desk
top. as at times when it goes to the task bar people think it is not
working.
Using the arrow keys will speak out any thing there.
You might have speech mode turned off If this is the case use the nvda
key + letter S to toogle it to speech mode talk.
You can also reset nvda back to factory defaults if it comes up or use
the shortcut nvda key + ctrl key + the letter R 3 times unless you do it
through the menu.
but make sure if you do this after you go through the menu to load it at
startup etc this is the one you get whenn you do a fresh install of nvda
with setting desktop etc.
make sure you get this message. You might have to restart nvda for it
to come up.
Hopefully that fixes the problem.
I am guessing the nvda.ini file might of got corrupted some how.
If this is the case I think you said you uninstalled nvda from the
computer there is another place to delete the settings from.
Press the windows key + the letter R then type in the following
%appdata% then press the enter key. It will give you a list of folders
locate the nvda folder then delete it out then use the alt key + f4 key
to close that screen .
That nice fresh copy of nvda install that to the pc and it should be
right to go.
You might have to use another screen reader narrator will do the trick
to do the above mentioned or a pair of eyes.
Gene nz
On 13/03/2021 2:26 pm, Arianna Sepulveda wrote:
> Hello, everyone,
>
>
> I recently started having this issue--probably a few days ago. I've
> done everything I can think of, save updating Windows 10 to the
> absolute latest version--though I don't think that should make that
> much of an issue, since I'm only on the release before this latest
> update. Anyhow, here's my issue. I was running NVDA when all of a
> sudden, it stopped speaking. I booted up Narrator and exited NVDA then
> tried to bring up NVDA again, with no luck. I then tried restarting
> the computer, and still nothing changed. I left the computer alone for
> a few days, but when I came back to it today, I still had the same
> problem. I figured, at this point, that I had nothing to lose, and
> uninstalled and reinstalled NVDA, getting the latest version from
> NVDA's website. The install screen spoke, but as soon as it was
> installed, I suddenly had no speech. I have no idea what I can do at
> this point. I have absolutely no ad-ons installed, the volume is up in
> the synthesizer dialogue, and I switched to ESpeak, just in case.
> Absolutely nothing has worked. I know my Surface isn't muted,
> obviously, because I'm getting speech both from Narrator and from
> JAWS.
>
> Does anyone know what this issue could possibly be? I'm extremely
> frustrated. I haven't used JAWS in quite a long time, and rather
> dislike it. The caps lock key no longer works as the JAWS key for a
> laptop, and I really miss the synth ring. Also, I feel like JAWS isn't
> as good on the web as NVDA. I had to get my husband's help with
> accepting the terms of service for a public WiFi network, because I
> couldn't even use the stupid JAWS cursor because of the aforementioned
> caps lock JAWS key issue. I would have had no such issue with this
> webpage with NVDA. If I couldn't navigate to it with the standard
> keys, I could most-likeley have gotten to it with Object Nav. Arrowing
> through the page with JAWS just got me to some explanatory text, and
> the stupid accept terms of service checkbox, but never to the button
> to finish the process of connecting. Anyhow, I'm hoping someone has
> some suggestions.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ari
>
>
>
>
>
-- Quentin Christensen
Training and Support Manager
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