RE: Realspeak and a Jaws demo?

Hi Ken,

 

You can download the real speak direct voices from a page on the FS website.
You can get to it via the web resources submenu that is located in the help
menu of the JAWS user interface. That web page also has buttons to play
samples of all the different voices so you can pick the one you like. I use
Samantha myself, but only as my say all voice since I still prefer eloquence
for most things.

 

However, you can only use these real speak voices with Freedom Scientific
products, so things like MAGic and OpenBook 9 whenever that comes out. You
won't be able to use them with NVDA since they are not SAPI 5 versions. FS
shipped SAPI 5 versions of real speak voices before JAWS 10 because the
direct voices weren't available yet. I figured it was only a matter of time
before the direct voices came out, making it similar to how they have
eloquence only work with JAWS. Since I have a JAWS 8 and 9, I kept the real
speak SAPI 5 synthesizers on my computer to use with other things. I use
Samantha as my iPod nano voice.

Maybe you could contact FS sales and see if you could buy a real speak SAPI
5 CD from them? Either that or buy a SAPI 5 version of real speak from
somewhere else, so that you could use it with NVDA.

 

HTH,

Brian

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