[aarontech] Re: FW: [Nvda-dev] NVDA 0.5 released!
- From: "valiant" <valiant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <aarontech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 00:20:56 -0400
Hi all again.
Just wanted to say that if anybody did download the NVDA screen reader,
there's a possibility it has a virus in it. The program that NVDA uses to
present a GUI interface had a virus in it. They've fixed that problem by
now, but you'd of course need to download it one more time to make sure
you've got the good one.
That article I mentioned the other day is waiting for permission to be put
up on my website, then I'll send it out, I can't wait!
Cheers:
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From: aarontech-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:aarontech-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of valiant
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 04:26 PM
To: aarontech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [aarontech] FW: [Nvda-dev] NVDA 0.5 released!
Hi all.
I forwarded this message from the NVDA Dev list. Version 0.5 of this screen
reader is out. Just about everything this screen reader attempts to do, it
does better or just as good as the commercial ones already. Not to mention
it's about twice as responsive. That's a lie when we start working in
virtual buffers, but that works too, just takes longer to load up.
If you're interested, you can download it from http://www.nvda-project.org
If you're interested in the free and open source software speech synthesizer
that piggybacks on NVDA, point your browser at http://www.espeak.sf.net
Currently, NVDA, completely free and open source, can display it's graphical
user interface in thirteen different languages, and speak in up to twenty
different languages. I've been working with the developer of the Espeak
synthesizer to try and get him to better sound like an American with the
en-r voice. He listens, but misses some stuff. So far, to my knowledge, he's
implemented a change to speak back slash and slash instead of backstroke and
stroke, fixed the A.M. after a mourning time so that it pronounces A M
instead of am, and fixed, partially anyway, the way NVDA pronounces the word
colon. Right now I'm trying to awaken him to the change of one of the
phonemic rules so that when it says words with the o sound on them it sounds
more American. If it had good documentation and more accessible editing
software, I'd just fix it myself, but it doesn't so...
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[mailto:nvda-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Curran
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 12:39 AM
To: nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; vip-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Development for NonVisual Desktop Access
Subject: [Nvda-dev] NVDA 0.5 released!
Hellow all,
Today we finally released NVDA version 0.5.
NVDA is a free and open source screen reader for the Windows Operating
System.
Please visit www.nvda-project.org to find out more or to download a copy.
It has been two and a half months since release r425, and many new features
have been added, and many bugs fixed.
NVDA now comes with its own talking installer, which allows you to install
NVDA with out the use of another screen reader, or sighted assistance.
NVDA has been translated in to many more languages now, which brings the
number of languages up to 13. The languages NVDA now supports are:
English, French, Portuguese, Brizillian Portuguese, Spanish, Finnish,
German, Hungarian, Italian, Slovak, Traditional Chinese, Swedish and Czech.
NVDA now supports SAPI4, but most importantly now comes with the eSpeak
synthesizer built in to NVDA itself. This means that NVDA can now be used on
any Windows 2000/xp/Vista computer, that may not necessarily have
SAPI4/SAPI5 installed. eSpeak supports over twenty languages, and is very
lite-weight and responsive.
A big thank you to all the contributers of NVDA for making this release
possible.
Following are all the changes since r425:
Whatès New in NVDA
Changes since r425:
*NVDA now has a built-in synthesizer called eSpeak, developed by Jonathan
Duddington.
It is very responsive and lite-weight, and has support for many different
languages. Sapi synthesizers can still be used, but eSpeak will be used by
default.
eSpeak does not depend on any special software to be installed, so it can be
used with NVDA on any computer, on a USB thumb drive, or anywhere.
For more info on eSpeak, or to find other versions, go to
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/.
*NVDA now uses the built-in eSpeak synthesizer by default.
*the built-in eSpeak synthesizer will now start in the language NVDA is set
to, unless another voice has previously been chosen.
*Fix bug where the wrong character was being announced when pressing delete
in Internet Explorer / Outlook Express editable panes.
*Added support for more edit fields in Skype.
*VirtualBuffers only get loaded when focus is on the window that needs to be
loaded. This fixes some problems when the preview pane is turned on in
Outlook Express.
*Added commandline arguments to NVDA:
-m, --minimal: do not play startup/exit sounds and do not show the interface
on startup if set to do so.
-q, --quit: quit any other already running instance of NVDA and then exit
-s, --stderr-file fileName: specify where NVDA should place uncaught errors
and exceptions -d, --debug-file fileName: specify where NVDA should place
debug messages -c, --config-file: specify an alternative configuration file
-h, -help: show a help message listing commandline arguments *Fixed bug
where punctuation symbols would not be translated to the appropriate
language, when using a language other than english, and when speak typed
characters was turned on.
*Added Slovak language files thanks to Peter Vagner *Added a Virtual Buffer
settings dialog and a Document Formatting settings dialog, from Peter
Vagner.
*Added French translation thanks to Michel Such *Added a script to toggle
beeping of progress bars on and off (insert+u).
Contributed by Peter Vagner.
*Made more messages in NVDA be translatable for other languages. This
includes script descriptions when in keyboard help.
*Added a find dialog to the virtualBuffers (internet Explorer and Firefox).
Pressing control+f when on a page brings up a dialog in which you can type
some text to find. Pressing enter will then search for this text and place
the virtualBuffer cursor on this line. Pressing f3 will also search for the
next occurance of the text.
*When speak typed characters is turned on, more characters should be now
spoken. Technically, now ascii characters from 32 to 255 can now be spoken.
*Renamed some control types for better readability. Editable text is now
edit, outline is now tree view and push button is now button.
*When arrowing around list items in a list, or tree view items in a tree
view, the control type (list item, tree view item) is no longer spoken, to
speed up navigation.
*Has Popup (to indicate that a menu has a submenu) is now spoken as submenu.
*Where some language use control and alt (or altGR) to enter a special
character, NVDA now will speak these characters when speak typed characters
is on.
*Fixed some problems with reviewing static text controls.
*Added Translation for Traditional Chinese, thanks to Coscell Kao.
*Re-structured an important part of the NVDA code, which should now fix many
issues with NVDA's user interface (including settings dialogs).
*Added Sapi4 support to NVDA. Currently there are two sapi4 drivers, one
based on code contributed by Serotek Corporation, and one using the
ActiveVoice.ActiveVoice com Interface. Both these drivers have issues, see
which one works best for you.
*Now when trying to run a new copy of NVDA while an older copy is still
running will cause the new copy to just exit. This fixes a major problem
where running multiple copies of NVDA makes your system very unusable.
*Renamed the title of the NVDA user interface from NVDA Interface to NVDA.
*Fixed a bug in Outlook Express where pressing backspace at the start of an
editable message would cause an error.
*Added patch from Rui Batista that adds a script to report the current
battery status on laptops (insert+shift+b).
*Added a synth driver called Silence. This is a synth driver that does not
speak anything, allowing NVDA to stay completely silent at all times.
Eventually this could be used along with Braille support, when we have it.
*Added capitalPitchChange setting for synthesizers thanks to J.J. Meddaugh
*Added patch from J.J. Meddaugh that makes the toggle report objects under
mouse script more like the other toggle scripts (saying on/off rather than
changing the whole statement).
*Added spanish translation (es) contributed by Juan C. buo.
*Added Hungarian language file from Tamas Gczy.
*Added Portuguese language file from Rui Batista.
*Changing the voice in the voice settings dialog now sets the rate, pitch
and volume sliders to the new values according to the synthesizer, rather
than forcing the synthesizer to be set to the old values. This fixes issues
where a synth like eloquence or viavoice seems to speek at a much faster
rate than all other synths.
*Fixed a bug where either speech would stop, or NVDA would entirely crash,
when in a Dos console window.
*If support for a particular language exists, NVDA now automatically can
show its interface and speak its messages in the language Windows is set to.
A particular language can still be chosen manualy from the user interface
settings dialog as well.
*Added script 'toggleReportDynamicContentChanges' (insert+5). This toggles
whether new text, or other dynamic changes should be automatically
announced. So far this only works in Dos Console Windows.
*Added script 'toggleCaretMovesReviewCursor' (insert+6). This toggles
whether the review cursor should be automatically repositioned when the
system caret moves. This is useful in Dos console windows when trying to
read information as the screen is updating.
*Added script 'toggleFocusMovesNavigatorObject' (insert+7). This toggles
whether the navigator object is repositioned on the object with focus as it
changes.
*Added some documentation translated in to various languages. So far there
is French, Spannish and Finish.
*Removed some developer documentation from the binary distribution of NVDA,
it is only now in the source version.
*Fixed a possible bug in Windows Live Messanger and MSN Messenger where
arrowing up and down the contact list would cause errors.
*New messages are now automatically spoken when in a conversation using
Windows Live Messenger. (only works for English versions so far) *The
history window in a Windows Live Messenger conversation can now be read by
using the arrow keys. (Only works for English versions so far) *Added script
'passNextKeyThrough' (insert+f2). Press this key, and then the next key
pressed will be passed straight through to Windows. This is useful if you
have to press a certain key in an application but NVDA uses that key for
something else.
*NVDA no longer freezes up for more than a minute when opening very large
documents in MS Word.
*Fixed a bug where moving out of a table in MS Word, and then moving back
in, caused the current row/column numbers not to be spoken if moving back in
to exactly the same cell.
*Increasing and decreasing rate scripts can no longer take the rate above
100 or below 0.
*If there is an error with a language when choosing it in the User Interface
Settings dialog, a message box will alert the user to the fact.
*NVDA now asks if it should save configuration and restart if the user has
just changed the language in the User Interface Settings Dialog.
NVDA must be restarted for the language change to fully take effect.
*If a synthesizer can not be loaded, when choosing it from the synthesizer
dialog, a message box alerts the user to the fact.
*When loading a synthesizer for the first time, NVDA lets the synthesizer
choose the most suitable voice, rate and pitch parameters, rather than
forcing it to defaults it thinks are ok.
This fixes a problem where Eloquence and Viavoice sapi4 synths start
speaking way too fast for the first time.
Mick
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