hi everyone,
I am having problems with NVDA, particularly when using H, or K to navigate quickly through links. When I press each key multiple times, NVDA doesn’t verbalize the next heading or link Quickly enough. For example, when pressing H or K multiple times NVDAwill continuously read me the heading or the link completely instead of moving or verbalizing quickly as I am pressing each keys. To navigate efficiently through websites, I have to press control key and then H and then control key because there seems to be a delay. I change the synthesizer but is still the issue persist. I notice it is that it’s only happening on NVVA, because I don’t have this issues in. Jaws or narrator. is anyone here encounter this issue?
I have the latest version of NVDA.
By Lord1995, 24 April, 2025
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Which synth
Which synthesisers did you try this with? Also which browser?
Ivm speak
I tried both in the delay still there. It doesn’t matter which browser I use also is the same delay with buttons as well when pressing the B key.
You won't like this answer.
You're trying to use Eloquence without paying for Eloquence. Every single addon that tries to do this that I've ever heard of causes problems for people. I'm fairly sure the IBM Via Voice addon uses SAPI4.x, for one thing. That can't be good.
I'll admit, I've never tried it, I used to use the Vocalizer voices and I bought SAPI5 Eloquence when it came out. So it's possible that I'm wrong, and that's not the issue. But like I said, whenever I've heard of weird problems like low responsiveness, speech settings not saving, and all sorts of other speech things, nine times out of ten somebody was using some cracked version of Eloquence, and when they stopped doing that, magically, things got better. I'm fairly sure at least the not saving issue affected all synthesizers too, until it got uninstalled.
Why it keeps happening with the windows default sappy voices the
I got your point. But I try it with other synthesizers, And is still the delay. Which is pretty strange, I’m having this issue for at least this couple two months.
I don't have a delay at all and I'm using eliquence.
What happens if you use NVDA plus q to quit, then arrow down to restart with add-ons disabled, then enable eloquence?
I've seen this
In old version of NVDA, this was observed. However, they fixed it in recent versions. But with that old issue, NVDA use to go almost scylent, trying to keep up with the system. In your case, it's not freazing or going scilent, it's finishing what it was speaking, and then announcing the next thing.
There's a setting in Windows, which affects how fast a reapeting key press can happen. Could it be that user somehow changed that setting and it's now causing this behavior?
I don't remember what the setting is called or where to find it, Google might help.
Edit: Lol, with all these tech support Q&As, Be My Eyes can create a decent Chat GPT bot for answering accessibility questions. They also own our answers, so, legally safe. Perhaps is that why the admins have been chasing and censoring language so aggressively in recent days?
Try disableing all addons.
Then use NVDA with ESpeak and see if you get that delay.
Let us know what happens, you shouldn't be getting a delay at all.
One more thing.
after trying everything else, you could try resettting windows and redownloading NVDA to see what happens.
not getting this
Hi,
I'm using Brave and the IBM Eloquence add-on, and I'm not getting this issue at all. I've tried navigating through this website and others using H and K, and everything is still really responsive and fast. It might be a case of just waiting for the next update if none of the troubleshooting steps above fix things. I wouldn't reset Windows though, not unless this issue really is a game-changer for you. It might take you ages again to get things back to normal. As Khomus or someone else said above, it might be worth getting rid of the IBM add-on altogether and seeing if your other synths are still affected. I'm just wondering if you've got any browser extensions or any other NVDA add-ons, especially ones that are incompatible with the latest version, something like this might be causing this too.