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Screen Reader Suggestions? Amazon Echo? (self.Blind)
submitted by DaveyMames
I'd like to have a screen reader so it can speak the contents of a webpage. I've tried Dolphin Supernova but it was very glitchy. Any other suggestions?
Would an Amazon Echo work for reading a webpage?
Would an Amazon Echo work for reading a webpage?
Drunken_Idaho 3 points 5y ago
NVDA is a good suggestion. Its free n open source.
Echo is probably not the right answer.
Echo is probably not the right answer.
EndlessReverberation 2 points 5y ago
If your looking for a true screen reader, I believe NVDA is your best option. Try changing the voice to David, which you should have if your running Windows 10. From some of the things your saying, I'm wondering is it the case that your sighted and you just want to listen to web pages? If so then a screen reader is probably not going to be your best bet. Screen readers have many very powerful features that cause them to have steep learning curbs; that's why you think NVDA is not working. If you are sighted, you should try one of the many tools built for people who just need an audio version of a web page. These came up first when I just did a Google search,
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These tools are very simple and should be easy for you to use.
However, if you are indeed blind, please ignore these links and just start learning how to use NVDA, after you change the voice, of course; I hate E speak.
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These tools are very simple and should be easy for you to use.
However, if you are indeed blind, please ignore these links and just start learning how to use NVDA, after you change the voice, of course; I hate E speak.
bradley22 1 points 5y ago
There's quite a few shortcuts to learn but I'd recommend NVDA www.nvaccesss.org You can change the synthesizer/voice if you don't like it.
bradley22 1 points 5y ago
If you would like to give me the website, I can check it for you and see how well NVDA does with it.
DaveyMames [OP] 1 points 5y ago
Any website.
bradley22 2 points 5y ago
Are you blind? Or are you trying to help someone who is blind? As I said before. I'd recommend NVDA. It will work with 99 percent of websites out there and the ones it doesn't work with or, at least not that well, is down to bad web design.
vwlsmssng 1 points 5y ago
I know someone who uses Supernova and it is a very powerful and capable package with good support from Dolphin.
What problems did you have to make you say it was glitchy.
Have you tried contacting Dolphin support with your problems>
What problems did you have to make you say it was glitchy.
Have you tried contacting Dolphin support with your problems>
DaveyMames [OP] 2 points 5y ago
Was on the phone with them for an hour. I simply loaded a webpage in Google Chrome and clicked at the start of a paragraph of text. Hit Ctrl and it spoke the paragraph of text. But if I tried to get it to do the same again it would only start from the 3rd word or so. Was just very inconsistent.
I tried NVDA but the speech doesn't sound very natural - it sounds very robotic and it's difficult to make out what it's saying. Is there some way to get it working properly?
I tried NVDA but the speech doesn't sound very natural - it sounds very robotic and it's difficult to make out what it's saying. Is there some way to get it working properly?
vwlsmssng 1 points 5y ago
Dolphin have just released Supernova v17 which they claim now works with Chrome. The user I know doesn't use Chrome because they rely on everything following the Windows high contrast colour scheme which Chrome ignores. Also they are still using v16 until they decide they can afford the upgrade.
I don't have much experience of NVDA but I think the free voices it uses are not very high quality. You may be able to buy a TTS voice like Nuance Vocaliser Daniel or Serena and get it to work with NVDA.
I don't have much experience of NVDA but I think the free voices it uses are not very high quality. You may be able to buy a TTS voice like Nuance Vocaliser Daniel or Serena and get it to work with NVDA.
DaveyMames [OP] 2 points 5y ago
I was already using v17 with Chrome.
vwlsmssng 1 points 5y ago
Thanks for the info. From what I've seen Supernova either usually works with a web page or occasionally it just says it has finished the document without reading it. This is with Internet Explorer. The built in Doc Reader tool can make a better stab at more difficult to handle documents.
LanceThunder 1 points 5y ago
I don't have much experience with amazon echo but I can tell you that it is a major privacy concern. its pretty much setting up a microphone in your home and giving a major corporation full access to it.
GoneVision 0 points 5y ago
Take the tinfoil hat off. You could unplug it, or turn it off, at your discretion. A representative from Amazon isn’t hovering over your Alexa enabled device forcing it to be on 24 hours a day, that’s your choice.
LanceThunder 1 points 5y ago
that's not accurate at all. its only useful if it is turned on at all times. no one is going to take the time to plug/unplug every time they need it.
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also, they don't need to have a representative listening in on your daily conversations. they could have the device automatically transcribe it to text and store it away from when it is needed.
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also, they don't need to have a representative listening in on your daily conversations. they could have the device automatically transcribe it to text and store it away from when it is needed.
GreatSunJester 1 points 5y ago
Give NVDA a shot (http://www.nvaccess.org).
It also depends upon your browser and the web page in question.
It also depends upon your browser and the web page in question.
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