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:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] 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" <dipendra.li...@gmail.com> To: "accessindia" <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> 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: > sumandog...@gmail.com > > 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 > > > > > > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing > accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_acc > essindia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > 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 > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking > of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its > veracity; > > 2. 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