

Version 0.7 updates the Enging (DLL) to fix a major bug causing NVDA to crash when trying to use any Hear2Read voice. Contains minor cleanup and a properly signed installer and uninstaller. Version 1.0 First full release of the Hear2Read TTS DLL. Version 1.1 Added support for the Devanagari Danda. We are aware of the challenge and are working on improving them. Select the Hear2Read voice you wish to use.Īll Hear2Read voices do try to speak English though they are not very good at it.

It should show Hear2Read English, and any additional voices that were installed. Now go to voice settings in NVDA preference sub-menu.Select Microsoft speech sapi5 voice option in the synthesizer.Open NVDA synthesizer settings in preference sub-menu by clicking right arrow key and hit enter on general settings of NVDA.Ensure that the base engine and any desired voices have been installed by following the steps below.For VI users, most likely NVDA is already running on the PC and restarting NVDA after stopping it (Exit) is not practical, therefore, VI users should restart the PC assuming it is configured for NVDA to always start when Windows starts. NOTE: NVDA must be restarted for it to recognize Hear2Read TTS and voices. Read on to find out how to get your Edbot or Edbot Dream talking Bulgarian (or any other OneCore voice for that matter).įirst you'll need to install the OneCore voice from Windows 10 Settings.Using Hear2Read software with NVDA screen reader: This means the voices appear unavailable to apps using SAPI including the Edbot Software.īut all is not lost. The problem is when you add a new voice in Windows 10 using the Settings app, you are actually adding OneCore voices, not SAPI voices. The OneCore system has now been merged into Windows 10, so we have 2 completely different speech systems! The voices were originally called 'Mobile voices'. In its ill-fated efforts to enter the mobile market, Microsoft created a brand new speech system called OneCore. Microsoft sometimes refers to SAPI voices as 'Desktop voices'. SAPI has been around for a while and works on earlier versions of Windows too. On Windows the Edbot Software uses the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) to provide speech support.
