Rightly said, sir. I'll contact you at a proper time in this regard.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dipendra Manocha" <[email protected]>
To: "'Dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile
phonesand Tabs. '" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] NEW EXCITING DEVELOPMENT IN SCREEN READING SOFTWARE
Would be very interested to engage with this TTS developer to facilitate
that this new TTS is compatible and available with regular NVDA installer.
Thanks
Dipendra
-----Original Message-----
From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf
Of Ashik
Sent: 06 September 2013 06:37
To: Dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of
mobilephones
and Tabs.
Subject: Re: [AI] NEW EXCITING DEVELOPMENT IN SCREEN READING SOFTWARE
Dear Sir,
I am glad to inform you all that a Nepali software developer has developed
a
Gujarati TTS recently. However it is still to be published. We are in the
processof making it more user-friendly.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dipendra Manocha" <[email protected]>
To: "accessindia" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 11:24 PM
Subject: [AI] NEW EXCITING DEVELOPMENT IN SCREEN READING SOFTWARE
Dear Access-Indians
I would like to share a very exciting development in the area of
Screen Reading software. As you all know that NVDA is an open source
screen reading software that can be downloaded free of cost from
nvaccess.org web site.
Its
latest version is 2013-2 released just few days ago. There are some
good developments related to NVDA here in India.
First; A development team is now working right here in India
contributing new features and improving the screen reading software.
The team is lead by one of our brightest software developer who
himself is a screen reading software user. He is Mr. Manish Agrawal.
Manish works full time with Sapient Technologies at very senior
knowledge resource and he now gives 40% of his time specifically to
the NVDA project. He is supported by one more dedicated developer and
also very experienced screen reading software tester.
IIT Delhi is also putting a team together to work under Manish to
contribute in development of NVDA.
All these efforts are under a joint project being implemented by CIS
and Saksham and supported by enable-India. Thanks to Hans Foundation
to provide financial support to run this project.
Specific objective of getting a team here in India is to work on
priorities set by users in India. The team started its work by
concentrating on improving performance of NVDA in Microsoft office
applications. Some of the remarkable improvements that Indian team
contributed to NVDA include:
Added sentence reading command
Improved paragraph reading command performance specially with bullets
and auto numbering Reading of protected documents in MS word
Announcement of suggestions in microsoft outlook in to or cc fields
Improvements of speech output in spell check dialogue box Reading of
status bar im all office 2010 applications Etc...
This list is growing fast and we can all appreciate that how important
these features are for us.
More important is that we now have developers who are very willing to
listen to us and work on what we think are most important features for
us in our jobs or educational environments. For example, One major
reason due to which I myself was not able to switch to NVDA was that
it did not announce auto complete suggestions of mail IDs in Microsoft
outlook. Global team had this a very low priority because they always
suggested to use thunderbird instead of MS Outlook. I could not make
that shift due to my company policy and responsibilities. Indian
development team fixed this issue and for past few months I am working
very happily full time with NVDA as my full time screen reading
software. What this team now wants is that the priorities of bug fixes
or new feature requests should be set by the users themselves. So,
here comes the opportunity to make a screen reading software work
where we find that it is not working. If you would like to report an
problem that you are facing use of NVDA or you feel NVDA is not
providing information that you need, please report it to:
[email protected]
Normally there are three releases of NVDA every year. How-ever, if you
would like to try out builds of version that NVDA development team in
India is releasing, write to Suman with this intension on the e-mail
provided above.
These releases are issued after every bug fix. These are not ensured
for stability and thus only those who would like to test out the new
features and provide feedback should get into this mode of using NVDA.
Last but not the least, We are getting very close of provide licenses
of Eloquence to work with NVDA along with the license of Sangita and
Vocaliser voices. Saksham will be providing these licenses in a few
weeks to come after testing stability of whole new licensing system.
I will also be writing soon about what is being done to add all Indian
languages in E-speak TTS. So, keep watch in this area as lot of
exciting developments are happening here.
Wishing everyone all the best and a happy teacher's day.
Dipendra Manocha
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