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Narrator is a screen reader in Microsoft Windows. Developed by Professor Paul Blenkhorn in 2000, [ 1 ] the utility made the Windows operating system more accessible for blind and visually impaired users.
Microsoft Sam is the default text-to-speech male voice in Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It is used by Narrator, the screen reader program built into the operating system. Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary are optional male and female voices respectively, available for download from the Microsoft website.
However, according to some users, [who?] using a screen reader is considerably more difficult than using a GUI, and many applications have specific problems resulting from the nature of the application (e.g. animations) or failure to comply with accessibility standards for the platform (e.g. Microsoft Word and Active Accessibility). [citation ...
Microsoft Narrator: Microsoft Windows Free, Commercial Bundled with recent versions of Windows, this basic screen reader makes use of MSAA. Microsurf: Microsurf: All that run Chrome browser Free Microsurf is a screen reader for Chrome NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) NonVisual Desktop Access project Windows Free and open source (GPL2)
Sleep mode has also seen performance improvements and, to address security issues, the recognizer is turned off by default after users speak "stop listening" instead of being suspended. Windows 7 also introduces an option to submit speech training data to Microsoft to improve future recognizer versions.
Make Compatible is a program developed by Microsoft that is included with Windows 9x operating systems.It changes per-program system settings in Windows to allow Windows 3.1 programs that are tailored specifically to that platform to execute under newer versions.
The Speech Application Programming Interface or SAPI is an API developed by Microsoft to allow the use of speech recognition and speech synthesis within Windows applications. To date, a number of versions of the API have been released, which have shipped either as part of a Speech SDK or as part of the Windows OS itself.
Narrator (Windows) is within the scope of WikiProject Disability. For more information, visit the project page , where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion . Disability Wikipedia:WikiProject Disability Template:WikiProject Disability Disability