[DECtalk] NVDA addon

[Blake Roberts]

Adding to Josh's response: I provided some steps several days ago which 
should cause DECtalk NVDA add-on to sing after doing a say all. My 
initial instructions missed a couple of things. Here is a link to my 
follow-up message in the list archive which contains additional details.

https://bluegrasspals.com/pipermail/dectalk/2022-September/005768.html


Blake



On 9/22/2022 9:36 AM, joshknnd1982 at gmail.com wrote:
> You have to go into NVDA symbols pronunciations dialog and set the left
> bracket, right bracket, underline, and colon characters to always be sent to
> synthesizer with the combo box that you tan over to.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dectalk <dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com> On Behalf Of Tony Baechler
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2022 9:12
> To: dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
> Subject: [DECtalk] NVDA addon
>
> Hi,
>
>
> I ran into an odd problem. Perhaps I am doing something wrong. I downloaded
> and installed the DECtalk NVDA addon from Jake's link. It installed fine and
> it works fine but I can't get it to sing. I opened a song and read the file
> in Notepad. All it did is say the DECtalk commands but no singing. What am I
> missing? I am sure this is something obvious and I admit I didn't look
> through the tools and preferences but it didn't jump out at me. I tried
> unchecking the boxes for character processing. What am I missing?
>
>
> Also, is there any chance of getting a different build with better speech
> quality? I can't stand the 4.6.X voices. The UK one sounds particularly
> horrible. I'm not meaning to complain as something is better than nothing
> but if there is a simple way to get better speech, that would be wonderful.
> What about making this work with JAWS and other screen readers? I can't
> stand my current software speech and wish I could go back. Hardware speech
> isn't practical but a high quality DECtalk voice would be nice. thanks very
> much for making this available regardless. I definitely appreciate it. It is
> still better than most robots out there.
>
>
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