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- The Add-ons Manager has been removed and replaced by the Add-on Store.
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- For more information please read the updated user guide.
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- Enhanced sound management:
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- NVDA now outputs audio via the Windows Audio Session API (WASAPI), which may improve the responsiveness, performance and stability of NVDA speech and sounds.
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This can be disabled in Advanced settings if audio problems are encountered. (#14697)
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- It is now possible to have the volume of NVDA sounds and beeps follow the volume setting of the voice you are using.
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This option can be enabled in Advanced settings. (#1409)
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- You can now separately control the volume of NVDA sounds.
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This can be configured in Advanced settings. (#1409)
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- New input gestures:
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- An unbound gesture to cycle through the available languages for Windows OCR. (#13036)
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- An unbound gesture to cycle through the Braille show messages modes. (#14864)
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- When colors are enabled Document Formatting, background colours are now reported in Microsoft Word. (#5866)
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- When using Excel shortcuts to toggle format such as bold, italic, underline and strike through of a cell in Excel, the result is now reported. (#14923)
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- Experimental enhanced sound management:
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- NVDA can now output audio via the Windows Audio Session API (WASAPI), which may improve the responsiveness, performance and stability of NVDA speech and sounds. (#14697)
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- WASAPI usage can be enabled in Advanced settings.
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Additionally, if WASAPI is enabled, the following Advanced settings can also be configured.
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- An option to have the volume of NVDA sounds and beeps follow the volume setting of the voice you are using. (#1409)
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- An option to separately configure the volume of NVDA sounds. (#1409, #15038)
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- There is a known issue with intermittent crashing when WASAPI is enabled. (#15150)
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- In Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, NVDA now reports when a control opens a dialog, grid, list or tree if the author has specified this using aria-haspopup. (#14709)
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- It is now possible to use system variables (such as ``%temp%`` or ``%homepath%``) in the path specification while creating portable copies of NVDA. (#14680)
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- In Windows 10 May 2019 Update and later, NVDA can announce virtual desktop names when opening, changing, and closing them. (#5641)
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==== Use WASAPI for audio output ====[WASAPI]
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This option enables audio output via the Windows Audio Session API (WASAPI).
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WASAPI is a more modern audio framework which may improve the responsiveness, performance and stability of NVDA audio output, including both speech and sounds.
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This option is enabled by default.
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This option is disabled by default.
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After changing this option, you will need to restart NVDA for the change to take effect.
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==== Volume of NVDA sounds follows voice volume ====[SoundVolumeFollowsVoice]
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