
#Windows text to speech voices gary install
WE ARE RELEASING THIS VERSION SINCE IT DOES WORK ON MANY WINDOWS 10 PCs WHILE WE CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE THE ISSUE.Īfter updating to the new Base Engine please send e-mail to and let us know if NVDA crashes on your PC.Īdded a Certificate showing the publisher as Hear2Read (Bazaj, Suresh) to address concerns about installing Applications from unknown publishers.Īdded a simple User Interface Application that lists installed Hear2Read voices and has a button to install more voices. WARNING: THIS RELEASE OF THE HEAR2READ BASE ENGINE (SAPI 5 DLL) CAUSES NVDA TO CRASH ON SOME WINDOWS 10 PCs. Specifically, the Flite Engine now supports NVDA on Windows 10 devices.
#Windows text to speech voices gary 64 Bit
Updated the Engine (DLL) to support both 32 and 64 bit applications. Also removed the 64 bit application as it is not needed.īefore downloading the new Hear2Read Base Engine, please uninstall the older version if one exists on your PC. 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. Using Hear2Read software with NVDA screen reader:
