NVDA Screen Reader vs Azure Text to Speech API

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NVDA Screen Reader

Category: Text to Speech
Industries: Software Development

Pricing

FREE

Azure Text to Speech API

Category: Text to Speech
Industries: Software Development

Pricing

Https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-services/speech-services/

Note: pasted link since Microsoft offers many options

20M+ Downloads
5/5

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NVDA Screen Reader reviews

is freely and open source (GPL2) Supports Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Word, Excel and Outlook Express, and Mozilla Thunderbird. NVDA supports web content using JavaScript. For students testing the screenreaders, NVDA was considered to be the second best screen reader in terms of capability for Windows and a great selling point is its price-free. In testing, some students preferred NVDA while some preferred JAWS. Interestingly enough, NVDA was able to read some web content that JAWS did not but the reverse was sometimes true as well.

- George Thompson

I have done my best to outline the major differences between NVDA on Windows and VoiceOver on the Mac. While both products are good, I personally lean in favor of NVDA. Microsoft Windows is by far the most popular system in the world, and NVDA is a great tool in the toolbox. Its open source nature is a major plus and means the innovation and ability to keep up with the ever increasing changes in Windows is almost certain. In contrast, Apple’s neglect has turned me personally away from the Mac. I do not recommend people invest in Macs anymore either, as it has been clear for many years that Apple’s focus is on iOS. While it’s sad these events have transpired, we must never forget or disrespect the work Apple has done. Apple is a pioneer in the realm of mainstream accessibility, and now everyone else including Microsoft is trying to catch up. This is a very good thing as it pushes the entire industry forward and ultimately means access for blind users is only getting better and better as the years march on.

- iPhoneGeeks

NVDA was much easier to get up and running, and I can keep it on a USB drive so that if I have to use it, then I can just pull it out and have it work.

- Blee Blat

Azure Text to Speech API reviews

Easy conversion from a voice recorded speech to text. Making speech into notes. When the user is not able to understand the speech he can leverage this API to understand what the user is trying to convey.

- Anil M-Full Stack Developer

Accuracy of conversation is highly advanced and reliable

- Afzal H.- Senior Associate Technology

A very user friendly product with nicely built. Its good category is supporting multi language. It is best multi-language text to speech API which helped in my working space a lot.

- Senju P- Engineer at Information Technology and Services

Pros & cons

NVDA Screen Reader

Pros
Free and open-source
Lightweight yet packs a lot of useful features
Ability to use add ons that adds extra features or improves the accessibility of certain apps
Supports multiple synthesizers including Microsoft Speech API, Eloquence, and Vocalizer
Supports reading and interacting with math contents such as MathType in Microsoft Office applications like Word (requires Math Player to work)
Braille display support

Cons
Math Player is required to read and interact with math content as of this writing
NVDA can sometimes behave oddly, but usually, there are workarounds such as restarting NVDA or Windows
Both Eloquence and Vocalizer synthesizers cost money, but usually not very expensive (2,000-4,000 Thai baht for the main synthesizer drivers, but any additional voices for that synthesizer are free)

Azure Text to Speech API

Pros
APIs offered are very robust
Deployment is easy since its available on the cloud
It is directly as a service and no expertise in AI or ML is needed by the development team
Security of data since Azure promises that it does not store the data of the customers that is used by the service.

Cons
The pricing is also costly - so for an individual user, not on a company plan, this is not affordable
Different accents mistakes
More support for regional languages

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