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From: Joseph Sherman
Date: May 4, 2016 7:51AM

For NVDA: Speech Viewer



For sighted software developers or people demoing NVDA to sighted audiences, a floating window is available that allows you to view all the text that NVDA is currently speaking.

To enable the speech viewer, check the "Speech Viewer" menu item under Tools in the NVDA menu. Uncheck the menu item to disable it.

While the speech viewer is enabled, it constantly updates to show you the most current text being spoken. However, if you click or focus inside the viewer, NVDA will temporarily stop updating the text, so that you are able to easily select or copy the existing content.

To toggle the speech viewer from anywhere, please assign a custom gesture using the Input Gestures dialog.





For JAWS: Speech History Mode



By default, JAWS retains a list of the last 50 announcements that were spoken by the speech synthesizer. For users of refreshable braille displays, JAWS has always provided a mode where you could review this spoken information in braille.

Speech History extends this functionality to users who rely on using speech more than braille. If you miss one or more messages spoken by JAWS, you can press INSERT+SPACE, followed by H to open a Results Viewer window containing up to the last 50 announcements spoken by the synthesizer.

When the Speech History window opens, you are placed on the line containing the most recent announcement. You can navigate through the text in the Results Viewer window using standard JAWS reading commands. You can also select and copy any part of, or all of the text within the Results Viewer Window and paste it into another file or document.







Joseph