RE: Fw: youtube video, jaws versus NVDA

  • From: "Aubertin, Gerry" <gaubertin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:04:47 -0700

Hello:

   Sorry, my work e-mail is not set-up to send links, but below you will find 
the address of the page.


http://www.nvda-project.org/wiki/FreeSpeechSynthesizerList

   I hope this little bit does help.


Gerry Aubertin
Programmer/Analyst
Phone: (519) 271-4840 Ext. 8807

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From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andreas Stefik 
[stefika@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 2:28 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Fw: youtube video, jaws versus NVDA

Gerry,

Do you have a link to this new real sounding english voice? I took a
quick gander at the website, but didn't come across it.

Stefik

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Aubertin, Gerry
<gaubertin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello There:
>
>   For what it's worth; The Real Speak Solo Direct synthesizer that comes with 
> Jaws 10 and later does not crash when given the forbidden word. This has got 
> to be the weirdest bug I have ever come accross.
>
>   In my humble opinion, the Real Speak voices for Jaws has got to be the 
> greatest synthetic speech I have ever heard.
>
>   Also, according to the NVDA-PROJECT.ORG site there is now a human sounding 
> English voice for NVDA. I have not downloaded and installed it, but I intend 
> to some time. The place to download from is blocked by our company (because 
> it is uncatagorized) but one day I will wake up one of the Corporate network 
> guys and get his help to download the new NVDA voice.
>
>
> Gerry Aubertin
> Programmer/Analyst
> Phone: (519) 271-4840 Ext. 8807
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> [programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rasmussen, Lloyd 
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> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:13 AM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Fw: youtube video, jaws versus NVDA
>
> Window-Eyes 7.2 with Eloquence also locks up on "the word which shall not be 
> spoken".  I have not tried entering it into a user dictionary, but this 
> should work.  Someone has also written an Eloquence script which perhaps 
> covers this case; I haven't tried it out.
>
> Older versions of Window-Eyes had an unlocked version of SAPI 4 Eloquence, so 
> they should also work with NVDA.
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of qubit
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 1:26 AM
> To: Rasmussen, Lloyd; programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Fw: youtube video, jaws versus NVDA
>
> Hi -- to guard against this word, I added an entry for the word in the jaws 
> default dictionary.  It is possible to do this without locking up if you are 
> careful and don't do a sayline as you are typing the entry.  Go to the 
> dictionary manager with insert+d, type control+shift+d to get to the global 
> dictionary, press the add button and follow the prompts.  I put there an 
> entry with the word as the dictionary and the replacement string as a jaws 
> sound effect followed by the offending word broken into syllables.
> This completely solves the problem -- well, there is one catch: if you enter 
> the dictionary and arrow down through the entries, jaws will try to speak the 
> word untranslated, so be sure to avoid doing this without changing 
> synthesizers in jaws first.
>
> I am running jaws 11.0.1461 on XP pro.
>
> You should avoid putting the word in emails for the sake of those who haven't 
> gotten jaws shielded from it.
>
> Again, the problem is not jaws, it is eloquence.  In fact, I run talks with 
> eloquence on my cell phone, and talks locks up on that word to the point that 
> I need to reboot the phone to get back to a workable state.
>
> Happy hacking.
> --le
>
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