Re: cant select espeak as windows default voice
The reason this isn't working right for you is probably this. By you saying Espeak I'm guessing you installed the old SAPI espeak off source forge. That version, like a few people have already said, is 32-bit only so will only show up in the
Re: experiences with the Sennheiser Ambeo smart headset?
I have one of these and it's amazing. The reason they're getting so cheep is that Sennheiser discontinued them so people are just selling out stock, they used to be much more expensive. I got a pair for about 90 euros and didn't
Re: what realy was with nvda translate addon?
To those of you who use this ad-on to live translate books while you read them, please stop because you're hurting everyone else. The reason the ad-on is so unreliable is most likely because of API call limitations. If Google gets a lot of
Re: autocorrection, dictation and other wonderful, terrible experiences
Yeah, you really, really want to proofread your dictations. No matter what language you're using and what you're writing. The number of people who don't, and then just hit send is just insane. Applevis is a prime
Re: autocorrection, dictation and other wonderful, terrible experiences
Yeah, you really, really want to proofread your dictations. No matter what language you're using and what you're writing. The number of people who don't, and then just hit send is just insane. Applevis is a prime
Re: questions about Spotify
Spotify accessibility these days is pretty decent, especially on mobile. There are occasional situations where things did break for VoiceOver, for example a recent update briefly made the button to expand the now playing screen invisible to VO meaning it was
Re: Why should I use music streaming services
As far as Spotify vs Apple Music, a lot of it comes down to personal preference. Apple music integrates a lot better with iOS than Spotify does, and they now also have a web app and it can be used in iTunes if you like it. Personally I found
Re: Why should I use music streaming services
Slight correction: Siri does actually let you play from Spotify now. You have to specifically ask for it, but as long as you do it works.Compared to just playing music on YouTube, the quality will be considerably higher, 320KBPS MP3, Ogg or AAC
Re: Continuous read in iOS with braille and no speech
You're using the wrong command. Apple just added an auto advance feature to braille in iOS 14, which will be a separate command to read all. Check under the commands section for your display, it probably has a chord assigned to it by
Re: Password managers, iOS, and accessible autofill
The way that it works depends. There are 3 contexts I've seen password autofill popp up. First, sometimes iOS will just detect you're on a screen with a login form, and if it finds a matching password in your manager it'll pop up a rather
Re: Dolphin now inaccessible???
Mmm, don't you love resurrected threads? I know I do! This one is for good reason though.As can be seen in the issue I reported the latest dolphin build should once again be accessible, it turned out the bug wasn't actually strictly with the QT version.
Re: Dolphin now inaccessible???
Mmm, don't you love resurrected threads? I know I do! This one is for good reason though.As can be seen in the issue I reported the latest dolphin build should once again be accessible, it turned out the bug wasn't actually strictly with the QT version.
Re: Where to buy a Windows 10 PRO license cheaper?
That message basically just means that Windows uploaded its activation status to your microsoft account for that computer. So, if you were to completely wipe that computer, maybe even swap a drive or two, install Windows from scratch
Re: Where to buy a Windows 10 PRO license cheaper?
That message basically just means that Windows uploaded its activation status to your microsoft account for that computer. So, if you were to completely wipe that computer, maybe even swap a drive or two, install Windows from scratch
Re: Has anyone used an Honor magic watch 2?
Did some quick Googling, and I don't think this watch is accessible. First and formost, it's not running WearOS which is the current OS Android watches run. It instead uses something called LiteOS which is apparently something custom developped
Re: i'm getting a new computer soon, how to move my data to it
The fastest way I can think of is just using network sharing. Do this only if you're at home and have a secure Wi-Fi network.First of all, for this to work, your Windows account needs to have a password. If it doesn't go and
Re: i'm getting a new computer soon, how to move my data to it
The fastest way I can think of is just using network sharing. Do this only if you're at home and have a secure Wi-Fi network.First of all, for this to work, your Windows account needs to have a password. If it doesn't go and
Re: major bugs in whatsapp with voiceover, am I the only one?
That first problem isn't something I experienced myself, but from what I heard this seems to happen if you have the option that protects the app with Touch/Face ID turned on, so if you do try turning it off which should
Re: Windows Sandbox Accessibility
It's accessible, it's just by default not all keystrokes are sent. To send all keys to the sandbox you have to either press CTRL+Alt+Pause, or hit maximise from the system menu. Then you can press CTRL+Windows+Enter to start up Narrator in the Sandbox. If
Re: Don't upgrade to NVDA 2020.1 if you use discord
So I started writing this huge wall of text about how it is truly broken and I even found a workaround... only to realise it's not actually too bad, it just behaves differently.A recent change in NVDA 2020.1 is that it now reports
Re: new newb with an ear on native musical things...
Adding new plugins to the browser involves 2 steps. The first is installing the plugin, like xpand or dexed, into a place where the komplete software can find it. By default it searches in 2 folders, c:\Program Files\Native
Re: new newb with an ear on native musical things...
I'm fairly new to the world of Komplete myself, having bought into the ecosystem with an M32 a few weeks ago, but hopefully I can clear some things up best as I can, mainly by trying to answer post 7 because you're asking the right
Re: new newb with an ear on native musical things...
I'm fairly new to the world of Komplete myself, having bought into the ecosystem with an M32 a few weeks ago, but hopefully I can clear some things up best as I can, mainly by trying to answer post 7 because you're asking the right
Re: recording assistance
Hi Dark,Definitely go through the articles UltraLeetJ linked to. I'll try to explain some of the things that are confusing you at the moment.- Setting up your microphone - in Reaper's preferences under the audio device, you'll want the audio system option set to
Re: Good and accessible alternative media player that organizes your music
+1 for Foobar 2000. I'm not sure what you mean by ad-on, if you mean an NVDA ad-on or JAWS scripts, you really don't need one as Foobar is all standard Windows controls. If you ment things like plugins to play other
Re: Need help setting up The GO XLR
Hi Gamulation,Hope you'll enjoy your GoXLR!Some time ago I promiced to write down some information about setting the GoXLR app. And last month along with a fellow GoXLR user we sat down to start doing just that. You can find the information repository
Re: Help out science by lending unused computer resources
Web control was giving me a ton of issues in Brave and Chrome, but it seems to work a bit better in Firefox - it doesn't keep reloading at least. Some parts of the page sometimes take forever to load and the page stops updating
Re: Coronavirus sales and giveaways
The developers of Reaper are offering a temporary license that lasts until June 30th for those who are working from Home.Also, Korg has made the iKaossilator iOS synthesizer free until March 31st. If you never heard of it it's a really fun and fully
Re: Coronavirus sales and giveaways
The developers of Reaper are offering a temporary license that lasts until June 30th for those who are working from Home.
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Re: My top speed 3 mod
Cool. I've been meaning to reinstall that game and get cars for it, though I would have probably posted this in general game discussion because this is very much game related. I'm sure one of the mods will move it though.
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Re: Does anyone have the Go Xlr microphone mixer?
I was under the impression that the Mini still had the motorized faders, but it turns out not.The main differences are that you don't have all the extra effects like the reverbs, pitch shifting and auto-tune. You also don't have the
Re: Does anyone have the Go Xlr microphone mixer?
Yep, I've been using one for about 2 months now and have been using it pretty much daily, as well as while doing PG13 streams.Someone already asked about this some time ago, I wrote a more detailed explanation here (it's post #2 in case the
Re: Dolphin now inaccessible???
And after further investigation I managed to track it down to what specific build broke this. I opened an issue here if you want to follow it. It also lists what is the last accessible version for the moment
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Re: Dolphin now inaccessible???
I was just looking through the issue tracker, and it seems as though at some point before Dolphin's QT UI used to work with screen readers as there was a report from Sanslash who also has an account on here with tab getting stuck in a dialog. I also grabbed
Re: Dolphin now inaccessible???
I haven't looked into Dolphin in a while, but I remember seeing on their progress reports they were migrating away from WX to QT. WX is great for accessibility, but also often a pain to program for which is why a lot of developers move away from it. That
Re: Trying to get a book to read on IBooks.
Going just by that file size it does sound like the book just has scanned in page images. If that's the case your only real option is to run OCR on this book with software like FineReader. But at that point you definitely don't want to buy from
Re: A bit of trouble with youtube-dl.
Try adding the -i switch to your command to ignore errors. IIRC by default if YouTube-dl encounters an error in an operation that downloads multiple videos it just aborts the entire operation, this should just make it skip anything that failed.
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Re: A bit of trouble with youtube-dl.
Try adding the -i switch to your command to ignore errors. IIRC by default YouTube-dl encounters an error in an operation that downloads multiple videos it just aborts the entire operation, this should just make it skip anything that failed.
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Re: Getting windows explorer to sort by date created
Find the folder that's giving you trouble and go into its properties. You should see a combo box asking what it should be optimised for - music, documents, general items or videos. Set it to general items and check the option to apply
Re: Have you ever tried Brave Browser?
@17 for the history, you can navigate into it by tabbing. For some reason, NVDA sees the surrounding controls separately from the actual list of history entries. Once you tab into it though you should be good to go.As far as the reader view is
Re: Have you ever tried Brave Browser?
I have also been using it for a few months and love the experience for the most part. The built-in ad blocker is great and you have control over things like autoplay blocking which regular Chrome doesn't provide. The last version also added a built-in
Re: Discord issues with voiceover on mac
I don't remember seeing this with Discord specifically because I raerly use my Mac these days, but I ran into this with another Electron app a few weeks ago where I had a lot of issues trying to get the VoiceOver cursor to see the application. So I
Re: Getting rid of the V Virus
Yep. It's a virus that made the rounds through some shared folders, it travelled pretty far in the blind community though I'm not sure where it originated.It replicated by searching for exe files on the computer. Then for every executable it found, it renamed
Re: Friend Gets Weird Message After visiting BSG
I read about some US ISP's (specifically Comcast) injecting messages like this into webpages, I just did some Googling and Charter seems to do this as well so I guess others might be too.If you want absolute peace of mind, I would call your
Re: Is Stream labs better then OBS studio?
Technically, I use both, using streamlabs as the service to receive donations. For this, it works, though the interface to configure things like the donation alerts is a bit of a mess and not the most accessible thing in the world.For streaming,
Re: Warning about the newest NVDA update
@69 all of the translation add-ons have been updated. Instant Translate is on the official add-on page, JGT can be found on blindgamers.com, and the other translate add-on by Yanik can be downloaded here
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Re: Warning about the newest NVDA update
Regarding speech synthesizers, Acapela already has an updated driver on their page for 2019.3, so does Code Factory for their Eloquence/Vocalizer Ad-on.Tiflotecnia is also working on updates. The Classic vocalizer driver (version 2 that came before
Re: TeamTalk bots
From what I heard of this audio bot, he doesn't distribute it. Rather you have to give him your server details and only then he'll just plop an instance of it there.The reason he probably does this and also why there aren't many TT bots, is that unlike Teamspeak or
Re: Looking for a mixer
I'm fairly sure the Xenix 502 can't do this. I should know because I was using one for just about 8 years and is what I upgraded from because it wasn't flexible enough for my use case. I was able to get my microphone and system audio mixed and sent to the main
Re: Looking for a mixer
I bought a GoXLR 2 weeks ago after Talon got one a few months back, because he seemd to like and recommend it. I wanted to write a review about it with an emphasis on accessibility, and I'll still do this to give people detailed information about it and expand on
Re: Sad news, rvdwal passed out
Talk about unexpected news, I am extremely sad to hear this. I didn't speak with Roel much, but whenever we spoke either here on the forum or during games of Crazy Party he always had something constructive to say and was very knowledgeable in whatever the
Re: Setting up TeamTalk on IOS
For TeamTalk Hotkeys, look around in the menus. Most of the important functions have hotkeys and they'll be listed next to them.As far as your push to talk key, press F4 to get into the preferences. You should be on the general page when the dialog opens so
Re: Macs rearing their heads again.
My biggest gripe with VoiceOver is the performance on the web. I find it gets bogged down very easily. Any relatively complex website, like YouTube or Facebook and you're looking at VO taking a noticeably long time to react to your commands, often to the
Re: Code Factory voices
@3 Nuance very much has a right to charge for it much as we might not like this fact. They own the rights to the software and as far as I know the payment scheme they force anyone wanting to integrate their speech in software is based on royalties, so they get some
Re: A software request
One thing worth noting is app store gifting only works within one country, so for example someone living in Germany can't gift an app to someone in the US. So, for gifting an app store app you might want to say what country you live in, or after talking to someone
Re: NVDA on touch screens, does it work OK?
I got the 13-inch surfacebook 2 a couple months ago. First of all If I'm being honest there are definitely computers with better specs to price rayshows out there. I picked it up partially because I got it along with a new braille display because
Re: NVDA, github and youtube
Yep, this is definitely a YouTube problem, someone probably went a little trigger happy with live regions... Wouldn't be the first time YouTube accessibility had a glitch.
URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/468574/#p468574
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Re: Where can I get ivona voices?
Harpo Software managed to get distribution rights to them for end users. You can buy them here. They also offer Vocalizer voices. There's not much too complain, the voices are quite responsive, faster than the old packages Ivona used to offer, both 32 and
Re: asking some questions about the i-phone, voiceover, and ios apps
True about the microphones only working for video at the moment. I'm hoping iOS 13 might change this, supposedly it has some additional API's that let you change how audio and video is captured during recordings. But
Re: asking some questions about the i-phone, voiceover, and ios apps
The iPhone 5s and newer are 64-bit and will have the Alex voice. For stereo mics, the XS/XR line and up have them.
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Re: getting automatic lang switching ios use mexicon spanish instead spain
I'm not sure if this will work, but it's worth a try. You can set the default speech voice for a language for iOS in general under settings>general>accessibility>speech. in iOS 13 this menu is called spoken content.
Re: No Longer Able to Run Virtual Machines, Intel VT-x Problem
A friend of mine just ran into a similar message, perhaps it's something that got changed in an update to VMWare. I have a vague memory of seeing an option in the VM settings to disable using the host virtualisation technology.
Re: tool to delete same files in 2 directories
Robocopy should do what you want. You can find a manual for it hereFor your use, you want a combination of the /purge and /nocopy switches, they should do what you want.
URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/458148/#p458148
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Re: what was your first computer
The first truly mine computer was a Del laptop, from around 2003 ish. IIRC it had a pentium III, 256? megs of RAM and a 20 gig hard drive. For the first year that I had it, it was basically just a gaming machine. Then a year later I got Window-Eyes 4.5 for
Re: best cervices for converting currency
The fastest way I know of, which is how I do it, is using Google. Just do a search for something like 40 usd in eur and it'll pop up with a currency converter.
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Re: Zhengdu screen reader
Sounds like a recent change Microsoft made to Windows in 1903 broke it, and this company isn't particularly fast at updating it. Sending them an Email or posting on the forum is probably the best course of action.
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Re: Win32 App Accessibility
Not much else that needs to be said. Anything using standard winforms or even the more modern WPF frameworks is very accessible, because it works well with the Windows accessibility API's like UIA that are used by screen readers to do their job. What caused a
Re: new cell phone recommendations
When it comes to answering calls, the iPhone has a pretty big advantage in terms of simplicity over any Android phone. While you can manually look for the answer button and double-tap on it when a call comes in, the iPhone has what's called the "Magic
Re: freedos
For getting ASAP to speak in DOSBox, the mainline official dosbox builds don't work very well with dos screen readers. I raised this with the devs, but they're only interested to do the bare minimum to get it to play games so emulation of certain parts of the system isn't as
Re: freedos
For getting ASAP to speak in DOSBox, the mainline official dosbox builds don't work very well with dos screen readers. I raised this with the devs, but they're only interested to do the bare minimum to get it to play games so emulation of certain parts of the system isn't as
Re: freedos
I didn't install it, but iirc if you get the bootable freedos floppies they leave you enough space to fit an asap installation on it and have speech that way. So, you should be able to modify the floppy version of freedos or even make yourself a custom CD version and install it
Re: freedos
I edidn't install it, but iirc if you get the bootable freedos floppies they leave you enough space to fit an asap installation on it and have speech that way. So, you should be able to modify the floppy version of freedos or even make yourself a custom CD version and install
Re: How can i start a server for rtr/ teamtalk. On debien?
You don't need Wine for TeamTalk as you can get the server packages for Linux from the bearware site. Setup of a TeamTalk server is likewise easy enough. Most of the configuration can be done with a setup wizard that comes with the
Re: Eurovision 2019 commentary livestream announcement
Thanks to all who participated and for all your feedback. If you missed the stream you can get the archive here.https://piotrs.site/audio/Eurostream-2019.mp3enjoy!
URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/434775/#p434775
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Re: getting a failed to stream message in team talk
TeamTalk is really particular at what kind of files it'll let you stream. Normally only MP3 and wav will work, though installing the kLite codec pack should make it work with more formats. Even then, it only likes files that match the
Re: Eurovision 2019 commentary livestream announcement
Live with Eurovision 2019 over at http://pg13lp.com:8000/pg13.aac.m3uJoin us!
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Eurovision 2019 commentary livestream announcement
Hello all,As you may recall, over the last few years a few friends of mine and myself have been live streaming the Eurovision song contest with commentary, and with the grand final for 2019 coming up the time has come once again. The final
Re: WebAccessibilizer - accessibilize any page without programming
This thing is way cool. I labelled the twitch player controls with it as a test and it worked beautifully for that, but labeling buttons seems to just be scraping the surface here
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Re: Commentary Screenreader: do we have vO equivalend for Android?
I personally don't think there's anything wrong with it being in Google Play. As long as it's official and all languages are included, and GOogle didn't seem to flag any issues while approving it - it includes apps that
Re: how to reinstall windows on gpd win 2?
Newer Windows 10 versions have a feature in Windows Defender to have Windows clean install itself without any software that came with your computer this is how you can access it.If this doesn't work, get the windows 10 media creation tool from
Re: Telegram Messenger is now accessible for the blind
Unfortunately, sometimes it takes a large effort from the community to get the attention of a company. Is it sad? Absolutely. But often after the point is made, and the company makes the changes it's being asked to, with or without
Re: Telegram Messenger is now accessible for the blind
I am extremely grateful that the accessibility was improved. You guys are throwing names of alternative Android clients left and right but I have to point out that i O S never had any third party apps so this is the first time I can
Re: How did you manage to run the sound enabler for safe mode?
You shouldn't need this in windows 1 0.. The newest versions are supposed to give you narrator speech in safe mode and recovery.
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Re: Who likes using iMessage?
It all comes down to what your friends use. I suppose in a country like South Africa, or Poland for that matter you're very much right. Most people have Android phones, so iMessage isn't particularly helpful. This was the case for me for a long time.
Re: The clash of NVDA and GTA5
My guess is that this has nothing to do with how many resources the game is using. I think what's happening is that the game installs a keyhook when you run it to prevent you from accidentally doing things like leaving the window or opening the start menu by
Re: Accessibility of online therapy apps?
@16 that's good to know. I first heard about this from a news publication which linked to a bunch of YouTube videos detailing the issues, and looking for them now pewdiepie's was unsurprisingly the first result, and I normally don't care for his
Re: Accessibility of online therapy apps?
While I don't know anything about the accessibility of either of the 2 services you mentioned, in regards to better help a few months ago some somewhat concerning information surfaced about the quality of the service. This video sums it up pretty
Re: The Wonders of Netflix
As someone living in a country where probably less than 5% of the movies broadcast on TV is described and where cinemas only do description during very select and few specialized showings for the blind, I totally agree. There are, however, some people who really
Re: Keynote gold question
There's not much to it. You grab the keynote installer, transfer it to the VM (IE by mnaking an ISO containing it) and run it. The installer is really simple. Once it's installed you need to either launch the keynote demo program that came with it, or change to it
Re: Numbers Stations, Phreaking and other oddities?
Yup, number stations are really fascinating. It's interesting how they're still around so many years after the cold war ended. There's websites that have schedules of when they send messages and radio receivers you can access over the
Re: suggestions needed for good quality laptop
Talon recently bought himself the Razer Blade Stelf and he seems to be extremely happy with it. The design is almost identical to a Macbook Air, the fans are usually quiet and even if they kick in the sound is just a hiss, and there are no
Re: How to SSH from a windows computer to a Rastbery pi
Windows 10 comes with an SSH client, more or less. You need to install it by following these steps, and after doing this you can just go into your run dialog and type in ssh and you'll be connected. On older versions of Windows, look
Re: Commentary Screenreader: do we have vO equivalend for Android?
Out of curiosity, what features does it have that makes this interesting and better than Talkback? Also, how much can you trust it? A screen reader gets considerable access to your device... Even more so if you root it.
Re: Nuance vocaliser just died!
The DRM requirements are, as far as I know, Nuance's job which they required from Tiflotecnia for licensing. The older version 2 of the driver just used a simple name/key system but it got pirated to hel and back they stepped it up for Version 3. This is
Re: Audio describe startrek tng
My theory for why there isn't a lot of described Star Trek is that the only time they were broadcast with description (which must have been years ago on Sky in the UK judging by what the description track says) whoever was recording didn't do a consistent
Re: My Google Home Max adventures
Google play does actually allow you to upload up to I think 5 songs to your account if you have a play music subscription, which you got 12 months for free with the home max. I'm not sure how you do this but if you look on-line it shouldn't be too hard
Re: Sonos discussion
Hi,Yes, they do. You can use Sonos speakers as renderers by casting audio to them although some implementations don't work reliably with this, but for example the cast option built into Windows works. The Sonos controller can also use any UPNP servers on your network
Re: Is the HomePod really worth it?
I haven’t tried to get the google assistant to work on PC. I use it through the iOS app, which works pretty well. Only thing I had to do )was get a US app store account to get it, as it’s not available in Poland yet.
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Re: Is the HomePod really worth it?
@hadi.gsf me neither. Though I found the single play:5 more than satisfactory enough to fill this somewhat large bedroom. It may not have as much stereo separation as my old 2.1 speaker setup that it replaced, but over all it's louder, can fill the room
Re: Is the HomePod really worth it?
@Simba Well isn't that fun, we both got drawn into Sonos by the same person! Yes. The play:5 does have a jack at the back. It's one of the reasons I opted to get a play:5, rather than a stereo pair of sonos ones which don't have one. I think Ghorth uses
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