This entry was posted in nvda, tips, Uncategorized on by paolo. Please note that these do not work with all voices, but only with the most recent voices of Acapela:Ī complete explanation of Acapela’s sounds and exclamation, including a link to a huge list with all sounds and exclamations is found here. and press Okay.ģ) In NVDA’s Speech settings (NVDA menu -> preferences -> Settings … -> Speech) Set NVDA’s speech punctuation level to “None” and press Okay.Ĥ) Save NVDA’s configuration and restart NVDA.Īfter that you will be able to use the Acapela Sounds. The # character means that you are “commenting out” this rule and thus it would not be applied.Ģ) Open NVDA’s Punctuation and Symbols dialog (NVDA menu -> preferences -> Punctuation and Symbols…) and find the entry for # (number sign), and change the value of the “Send actual symbol to synthesizer” combo box from “never” to “Only below symbol’s level”.
To tell NVDA not to use this rule you need to add a # character at the beginning of the next line, that should then look like the following: One of them is named “Break words that have numbers at the end” and it is the one interfering with the Acapela.
Always backup the original “builtin.dic” file before editing it, so that you can always reverse your changes.īuiltin.dic is found in the installation folder of NVDA and contains few regular expression rules to handle text in a smart way. However thanks to some clever and helpful NVDA users from the NVDA mailing list we have now found a solution to the issue.ġ) If you want your Acapela TTS Voices for NVDA to cry, laugh and cough in NVDA you need to edit an NVDA file called “builtin.dic”. Unfortunately NVDA has few smart rules which interferes with the Acapela sounds making it impossible to hear them, which has been a cause of frustration for many users of the Acapela TTS for NVDA plug-in.
the Acapela sounds are usually not found in ordinary text, it may be amusing or useful to write special texts to hear these special effects. Acapela voices use special codes to laugh, cry, cough and so on.
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