Our App allows the user to download voices amd use them with both SAPI and NVDA. Available voices are listed in the App and do not need to be found and downloaded from a website. The installation of voices does not involve Windows Defender or NVDA questions.
In this sense, the App resembles our Apps for Android and Apple.
If you do not want to use our App, the developers who maintain their own voices will supply Windows Installers for SAPI for each voice, and NVDA Addons for each voice. Please visit the dot org website for details
JAWS and NVDA name characters and symbols. They may not have the names in your language. We provide the following additional translations.
Luxembourgish for JAWS. Luxembourgish for NVDA
If your language is supported by RHVoice.com but is missing these translations, please contact us.
You can download the App from this link:
Microsoft Windows security will warn you that our App is from a "verified publisher". But our App is cryptographically signed by us to assure users that it our App . Microsoft security should tell you that the App's "publisher" is Non-Routine LLC, which is our California corporation.
When asked to trust the download, please do so only if Windows tells you that the download is signed by us, Non-Routine LLC.
The Microsoft EDGE browser may hide or quarantine the downloads. If the installation of the App does not begin, please look in EDGE's download history.
Once you give permission to install, installation will proceed with no further questions, and a the App should open. A desktop shortcut will be added.
The App contains software for operating with both text-to-speech interfaces. An updated "wrapper" Add-On for NVDA may be needed from time to time when NVDA requires an interface change. This only applies if you are an NVDA user. You will be prompted to allow the App to download the latest version of that Add-On when necessary.
Select a language and voice from the available listings in the App, and install. You will need to restart your SAPI-5 client (e.g. JAWS) and NVDA for the newly installed voice to be found by those reader clients.
SAPI-5 can be used by the NVDA screen-reader but we recommend using the better performing, direct RHVoice connection: Look for "RHVoice Plus" in the list of sources within NVDA.
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Within JAWS and other SAPI-5 clients, the name of the voice will be prefixed by "RHVoice-Plus".
If you are using any of the "Open Source" directly installed voices, they will show as "RHVoice" not "RHVoice Plus" in both SAPI and NVDA selection lists.
The two systems, RHVoice-Plus and RHVoice (if you have the latter) do not exchange voices.
These can be set for a voice and at a system level.
Some languages come with the ability to switch to another. If this is possible, options will be shown. You need to download a voice for the language you wish to switch to.
This feature is not yet implemented. It will allow for balancing of tones within a voice.
Each time you open the App, it will check for new voices and new versions of existing voices. Any updates available for voices you have installed will be automatically downloaded and installed.
Unfortunately, for some of our languages, JAWS and NVDA may not support them and instead send to RHVoice the names of letters and symbols in the language of your Windows user interface.
The current version of the App does not give you accecss to modify your local pronunciation dictionary. To do so, you need to follow the instructions for the Open Source installations.
If you are an existing user of one of the RHVoice languages, you can continue with your existing RHVoice local dictionaries - our App will access them in their usual place. For new languages, the voice developers will for the medium term, take care of issuing new updates to the system dictionary, through the App.