By the way, for those of who want to try, you might try increasing the speed and the pitch which might help you better understand the accent. I think you could also increase the volume. Keep tabbing around till you hear something like voice... press the spacebar and change the settings. Regards, Ravi paul
On 12/9/09, Ravi Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > Admittedly, Narrator's accent is not the most understandable of them > all; although it is certainly not as poor as you made it out to be. > As I said, you cant generalize just based on your experience and say > that a software is poor. Many even find JAWS's accent difficult to > understand, but that does not mean JAWS speaks some gibberish; so with > NVDA where Espeak's accent is difficult to understand. Moreover, > Microsoft Sam (the mail voice which you would likely have heard) is > not the only voice in Narrator. There are other voices too. > Your generalizations are personal and circumstantial, and not > necessarily true with all people and not at all times. A bit more > trying, you might understand Narator is not as bad as you think... > Regards, Ravi Paul > > On 12/9/09, Subramani L <[email protected]> wrote: >> Glad that you understand what "narrator" reads; perhaps you are sitting >> in a quiet room not in a big hall where there are at least 50 >> journalists making noise. >> >> Subramani >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ravi Paul >> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 11:01 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [AI] Windoes Narrator >> >> Narator bashing. absolute narator bashing. I certainly have found it >> useful when the other screen readers do not work. It is light on >> system, so when the other screen readers do not respond,narator could >> be useful. In my case, JAWS does not work in the windows logon screen >> due to some vidio intersept problem (JAWS even reads the characters in >> the password edit area), Narator helps me get around that problem. It >> is more light on system resources than even NVDA (which itself is >> quite light) >> Don't generalise unless you have made a thorough analysis of a >> software. Just because it is not good for you, it does not mean the >> software itself is not good. Go to the Wikipedia page of Narator where >> you will find the uses of it. One should not misleed others just on >> one experience. Narator is not the best screen reader, but it is >> better than not having anything at all. >> Regards, Ravi Paul >> >> On 12/9/09, govind reddy <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Dear Subramani sir: >>> It's true that not a narrator, but Windows irritator. But the same >>> helps when the JAWS doesn't work. It's very much improved in Vista, >>> and hope for the same in Windows7 since I haven't tested it with my >>> own hands. To stop narrator from speaking, Place the your curser on >>> the narrator and press Ault F4, it'll ask you to close Narrator and >>> select yes to close and it'll go. >>> >>> -- >>> With Warm Regards, >>> "Don't call me a flower, I'll dry up; Don't call me a deer, I'll run >>> away; Don't call me a moon, I'll wane away; Call me a shadow, I'll be >>> with you always." >>> Govind. >>> Mobile: 9959392651, 9030915271. >>> Email: [email protected] >>> My blog: >>> http://govindhowsweet.blogspot.com >>> >>> >>> >>> 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.i >> n >>> >> >> >> >> 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.i >> n >> >> Email secured by TPML Raksha Checkpoint >> >> >> >> 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 >> > 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
