I've had good luck using the AT&T voices Crystal and Mike. They work as
Sapi 4 or 5, and seem responsive to me. Crystal particularly is very
pleasant sounding, not harsh at all.
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Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Link to Latest Version of the NV Speech Player
I tried NVDA because Jaws wasn't handling certain things on the web very
well. Learning a new screen reader took a couple of attempts (old dogs and
new tricks). I was persistent only because Jaws kept not-doing those
things well. Now I'm a big fan of NVDA though I'm only an intermediate
user.
That said, I have to admit that eSpeak has been one of the barriers for
me. I'm finally at the point where I can tolerate it, so I expect it to
start growing on me in the next year or two, but it's been a weird and
unexpected struggle. I like Eloquence, so I figured that one robot would
be as good as another, but no. anyway, I've stuck with eSpeak because, for
one reason or other, the other free voices haven't worked for me either,
and I can't quite bring myself to pay a hundred dollars for vocalizer or
three hundred dollars for Ivona and one or two others.
Recently I tried NVDA with my Windows 8 voices, and I've been pleasantly
surprised. On my laptop, which is actually a dinky little netbook, these
voices are sluggish, but on my desktop, which has middling specs, the
combination is great.
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