NvDA does have an add-on that will do this. 

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From: Gamers [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 9:01 AM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Screen Readers and Games was the Blind Swordsman

Hi Dark,

Yeah, I understand that. I certainly had no illusions about you wanting to
change screen readers. However, the basic thing I wanted to say is that
there isn't a quick and easy way to switch speech on and off in Jaws the way
you can in Supernova. Come to think of it I'm not sure there is a quick way
to do it in Window-Eyes either without specially assigning a key for that
purpose. So all and all I think Supernova is a bit unique in its built-in
ability to switch speech on and off with a quick and easy keyboard command.
The only other screen reader I can think of that has a similar feature is
NVDA.

Cheers!


On 7/25/14, dark <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Tom.
>
> It was really only idle curiosity sinse I certainly have no plans to 
> switch
>
> to Jaws. it's just that as I said I flick supernova's speech on and 
> off all
>
> the time (the key is ctrl )zero).
>
> For example I am currently watching Star trek deep space 9. Obviously 
> I don't want to interupt dvd playback by supernova saying "spacebar" 
> everytime
>
> I play and paws etc, so I have the voice off. I did however configure 
> the time skip key to exactly the length of the theme tune, so that 
> once I've watched the initial teaser I can just hit pagedown and 
> instantly skip to the
>
> end without having to sit through the opening titles for 100 odd episodes.
>
> This was fairly easy, I just hit ctrl c to bring Up Power dvd's 
> configuration settings and play with the number of seconds that the 
> time skip function actually skips, however obviously I had to go from 
> opening the
>
> configuration pannel (which I needed supernova for), to playing the 
> dvd, which I didn't to see if my time skip worked.
>
> This is why I am curious sinse flicking the speech on and off is 
> something I
>
> always take for granted in supernova and use very frequently.
>
> Beware the grue!
>
> Dark.
>
>
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