[DECtalk] NVDA addon

[Tony Baechler]

Thanks. Sorry for the noise. I saw that thread but didn't think it was 
applicable. I just got this email address working again. It hasn't 
worked right since 2017. I've been on this list for years. It's a long 
story. Sorry for the list noise and not paying attention. I didn't know 
NVDA had a way to change symbol processing. As I said, I didn't spend a 
lot of time with it. I will try again now that I know what I'm doing.


On 9/22/2022 9:31 AM, Blake Roberts via Dectalk wrote:
> 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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