Thanks. Wonder if the annual licence will be available in other countries. Doesn't seem to be any mention of it on the UK distributor's website as yet.

The performance improvements are worth it alone.

Lt's see...
Faster JAWS Startup with Grace Period Authorization: How is this a feature? This is quite he limiting tactic: "Let's lock away almost all the applications functionality until we can get a valid authorization."
Separation of Office Scripts: Right... and this hadn't already been done before? Come on guys.
Improved Performance in Office 365 Applications: OK... the changes that separate the scripts (though that was already done before this release) hardly contributed to the improvement performance.
Notification of Spelling Errors in Word 365: Right. And NVDA didn't have this already, and JAWS already had this in MSWord. OK....
Speak Character Phonetically After Pause During Character Navigation: Someone, tell me exactly how this is, uh, you know, useful? Yeah, I don't think it is either.
Prompt to Confirm when Exiting JAWS Now Optional: And you couldn't have done this earlier? .... just wow.
I could go on, but this entire release seems like FS is trying to win over NVDA users -- which just won' work considering how outrageous their prices are. No, I'm most certainly not going to switch to JAWS just to get these new supposed features.... especially when this company's reputation is very questionable, and they really haven't introduced anything revolutionary in a few years.

Rather disappointing change log.
Anyways is this home annual thingy available out of US as well, or is for US cityzens only?

Hmm... I don't no what to add to this, all i can say though is don't you think that jaws is a bit slow to react on various opperating systems? After all, some computers have been annoying people when the system crashes

Yes. Most of these were bug fixes. There were no "performance improvements" or "new features" and this change log shows how disreputable and dirty this corporation actually is.

wow, 90 dollars a year. And to think I donate 10 monthly ones to nv access... could it be that they finally have put  2+2 together and realized sales aren't doing quite well? wait, nevermind... Some governments are stupidly still putting hoards of money into those self-obsequious disability heroes, but thankfully the competition (even narrator) is putting them up to the challenge.

Any idea when it'll come to Indian distributors? 90 USD is well in my affordability. And oh yes, I'll need to buy a new license. I've never bought and used the jenuine product. so I do hope that it becomes available soon.

Agreed with bryant. Ethin, that's a useful feature for those of us with hearing loss. In fact, I love that about iOS too, how you can hold your finger over a letter and it'll say it phonetically. I use it all the time because I have trouble distinguishing between v and b sometimes, so if I drag my finger down to v and hold it there, VoiceOver says Victor. Also, VoiceOver implements this behavior that is now in JAWS. If you swipe left or right to the previous or next character, it will say it phonetically after a little while.

This is the one feature I'd say the new 2019 build has that I'd really love to see in NVDA. Sadly, I don't use JAWS so can't take advantage of it.

Speaking of Narrator, check out what's new in the latest Windows Insider build:

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperi … m=referral

Of course NVDA is still my main screen reader. That will never change. And bTW jaws is still not portable. LOL Still uses a damn display driver. LOL It's like freedom scientific accessibility driver.

Ah, VIP Soundtracks.

Never used it, only looked at it. The site may still sort of survive within the internet archives.

Hmmm, actually, I wonder if it was VIP Sound Clips instead...