Hello, One advantage of using a pen drive for NVDA is that you can save your preferences. If the preferred voice is not found in the pc, the default is used. Using a cd for the purpose will not allow you to save your preferences.
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Cell: +91-9433464329 ----- Original Message ----- From: "ruchir falodiya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 3:18 PM Subject: [AI] carry your free screenReader with you wherever you go and makemost pc's accessible! > hello and a very warm good afternoon to accessindia > > i have some very interesting news for all of us. > > the NVDA ( non visual desktop access ) has just lonched the latest > release version ( NVDA 6.02p ) > > as always, NVDA still comes in 2 forms > > the installer ( for stationary usage at single pc like ( jaws ) and, > the portable version that you can carry anywhere you go with you. > > i my self likes the robustness and ease of use interface of the > portable version, and i'm gonna talk little bit about it today. > > the official website for downloads and other information is, > www.nvda-project.org > > the NVDA is still is very young ( around 2 years ) and hence, do not > compare it with other specialized costly screenreaders. > > the biggest advantage is, it is an open source project, ( which means > many brains can work on the development of the project and its > freeware) > > > for those of you, who are really very adventurous ( like me )and would > like to try out the latest revisions of NVDA, can go to snatShot link > from the download page > note: per day, due to many ideas and updates, we get 3/4 revision > daily so, update only once in month. > > > for rest of us, the stable version, NVDA 6.02p will work perfectly. > > by creating autorun.inf file, and writing it to USB /cd drive, 1 can > just plug in cd/ USB drive and any computer having sound card, and > drivers for display and sound properly installed ( which is, at most > pc's) can instantly get speech > > my own personal experience with NVDA :- > > the program is created in python with support from different libraries > , and since i've started useing it, it have never crashed on me. ( > highly stable ) > > you should read the files that are included in docks folder, different > language sub folders are present, select eng, and read key commands, > and other help files. > > when you download the portable version and run the .exe file, note, > that please give proper path ( not doing that, it will unzip all 45 > files in present folder) > i'm saying so, because i ended up in unzipping all files in " my > documents folder" > > after running the setup for the portable version, just give it a > simple path such as C:\NVDA_portable > > then, go at the extracted folder, and run NVDA.exe > > the insert key by default is the NVDA key ( like jaws) and insert + n > is the option for going to NVDA menu > > please explore the preferences sub menu, and adjust the speech > synthesizer speech rate, etc. > for me, the microsoft sappy 4.0 serotek eloquents speech synthesizer > works like jaws. > > oh, and yeah. the autorun file to automaticly start NVDA and access > any computer without help of any1 can be done in the following way. > > ( of corse, NVDA is hundred times better then narrator) > > note, in following steps, the extracted NVDA folder is named as NVDA_portable > > due to security reasons, it will not directly run from a USB drive, > but with CD, it will. > to create autorun.inf ( optional step) > > open note pad and copy following text into it. > > [autorun] > open=nvda_portable\nvda.exe > action=nvda_portable\nvda.exe > shell\nvda=enable speach > shell\nvda\command=nvda_portable\nvda.exe > > save this file at root of CD or u s b drive with a name autorun.inf > > it will also create a menu when you hit applications key at your > removable drive, you can see an extra option named " enable speech" > by hitting enter on it, NVDA will start speaking > > and by default, in the case of a CD, as soon as you insert the CD into > the drive, with in 15 sec, nvda will automaticly get activated > > if you cant create autorun or it doesn't works, please drop me an > email and i'll be glad to create 1 for you. > > important: , the nvda_portable folder and this autorun.inf file have > to stay at root of your drive. > > since i'm closely working with the developers and is a community > member, if you want, you can also directly contact me at my email > address and drop in your suggestions. ( after reading all help files > of corse ) > > for any further questions/query about NVDA or any other software, feel > free to email at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > msn: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > also, it will be really nice of you if you can drop me feedback about > my postings and improvements if any. > your comments are really important. > regards, > > ruchir > > > -- > As long as forever, > I will stay by your side, > I'll be your companion, > Your friend and your guide!!! > > Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm > Registration is now open! > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! 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