[espeak-gaeilge] Bug in NVDA 2013.1 Irish - interim solution

From: Ronan McGuirk <ronan.p.mcguirk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: espeak-gaeilge <espeak-gaeilge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 09:53:07 +0100

Hi all,

As most of you know, there is a bug in the NVDA 2013.1 Irish implementation.

If, in NVDA 2013.1,  you set the locale to Irish, when NVDA re-starts,
it crashes.  NVDA then will no longer speak.

The way to get NVDA speaking again is to edid the NVDA.ini file. On my
Windows 7 PC this file is in c:\users\userID\AppData\Roaming\NVDA\nvda.ini
 (UserID is the Windows 7 user name)

If your NVDA has crashed, you need to edit the line in NVDA.ini that
says LANGUAGE = ga and change it to LANGUAGE = en
This will get NVDA working again, but if you reset it to GA, it will
crash again.

Interim Solution: (2 steps)

1. If you have installed NVDA 2013.1, you need to go back to a more
stable version. For the moment I suggest NVDA.2013.1.RC2 (Release
candidate 2).  You can download this from nvAccess.org or I put the
install file that I used in
DropBox/eSpeak/NVDA/nvda.2013.1.rc2.exe

2. After you install the RC2 version, you can then rename the
espeak-data folder in
c:\program files\nvda\synthDrivers to Prev espeak-data and replace the
folder with the espeak-data folder that is to be found in
DropBox/eSpeak/nvda/espeak-data

This will give you the latest set of Irish pronunciation rules.

This interim work-around seems to be behaving okay for me. The Irish
Locale works okay and the Irish voice is okay also. Please let us know
how you get on with this.

Once NVDA 2013.1 RC2 is installed, you will get alerts telling you
that NVDA 2013.1 is available. If you want to use the Irish Locale,
don't take the update!

As for the bug...

This has been logged and a ticket raised. We don't know yet if we need
to wait until NVDA.2013.2 is released, or if there will be an interim
release. This depends on how many other issues are found and how
critical any issues are.

Regards and apologies that this bug wasn't detected in the final
snapshot releases before it went live,

Ronan

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