NVDA 2025.3beta1 available for testing

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Beta1 of NVDA 2025.3 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome you to download the beta and provide feedback using our issue reporting process. By installing the beta you will be opting into NVDA’s beta channel, and will only receive update notifications for beta and release candidate (RC) builds. The beta/RC channel will always keep you up to date with the latest NVDA version. The last RC in a release cycle is identical to the final stable release. To return to the stable release channel, upgrade manually to the latest stable build. Links

• Download NVDA 2025.3beta1
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• What’s new in this release of NVDA
• Please report any issues on GitHub.

Highlights

This release includes improvements to Remote Access, SAPI5 voices, braille and the Add-on Store.

Add-ons in the Add-on Store can now be sorted by minimum/last tested NVDA version and install date.

Remote Access has had several minor fixes and improvements including adding a command to send control+alt+delete and remembering recent connection settings. There are also fixes for connection and audio issues.

Braille improves with smarter word wrap, stable table selection across language changes, and optional USB auto-detection for Dot Pad.

There are several bug fixes for SAPI5 voices, including fixes for excessive leading silence trimming, freezing issues, and audio gaps.

eSpeak NG and Unicode CLDR have been updated. Localisation data for emojis has been added for Belarusian and Bosnian.

[Arnaud de Bonald]

Hello,

It seems our beloved developpers never take some hollidays.

smile.

btw, do you know if there is a SAPI 5 of the current Espeak NG?

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[Quentin Christensen]

Thank you so much for your kind words!

Re SAPI 5 eSpeak-NG.  For NVDA, I would stick with the built in version, especially as we have had a few SAPI5 issues recently.  If you would like to use it with other things, reading their GitHub page https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng indicates it is available as a SAPI 5 voice - but I think you may need to build it yourself.  Though there are possibly binaries people have already made.  That might be worth a separate thread.

Kind regards

Quentin.

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[Mitchell Archerd]

Hi Quinn, hi Quinn, where do you go to on subscribe from this email list?

Mitch

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[muhammed ali çiçek]

"Hello, I seem to have left the group by mistake. I actually meant to leave a different group. Sorry for the confusion. Thank you."

[Quentin Christensen]

Muhammed,

Your post came through to the group so you do seem to still be subscribed (I've also CC'd you directly just in case).

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[NVDA Screen Reader Discussion]

Hi all,

Beta2 of NVDA 2025.3 is now available for download and testing. Please see the original thread message for more information about the release and beta testing.

Download: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3beta2/

Changes introduced in Beta 2:

• Updates to translations
• Bug fix for Turkish Braille tables
• Bug fix for responsiveness issues with SAPI 5

[NVDA Screen Reader Discussion]

Beta3 of NVDA 2025.3 is now available for download and testing.

Please see the original thread message for more information about the release and beta testing.

Download from here.

Changes introduced in Beta 3:

• Updates to translations
• Bug fix for SAPI 5 where NVDA did not announce certain gestures