Emacspeak on Windows, what do people use?

Hi all. After giving Linux a few months, and finding the accessibility of the desktop, Mate/Gnome with Orca, not so clean and easy to deal with. Emacs was fine, besides the obvious things like the inability to navigate postmodern web pages with web applications and _javascript_, and sometimes I did wish for more natural-sounding voices, although now that I'm on Windows I usually just use Eloquence anyway. Braille was also an issue, but now that I have the Braille Note Touch, I can easily read Braille books and such. So now, I am Emacs-sick, that is, missing Emacs and its ... intelligence in design, and Emacspeak along with it. Even with NVDA, Narrator, and the advancements in both, Narrator now being able to try to describe images and controls in the GUI, and being able to OCR the text, and NVDA's multitude of supported speech synthesizers, and great web support, Raman's old saying about screen readers only reading the screen and not the content of the text is still true, even with the accessibility API's. So now, I'm faced with a dilemma, which could be solved but I'm not sure. There are several packages of Eloquence for Windows, for SAPI4, SAPI5, and even NVDA/Jaws for Windows screen readers. The SAPI4 one that I know of is version 6.1, the same version used in Voxin, so I think that would be the best to interface with, although a standalone version, if found, should do fine too. The eSpeak support in the newest Emacspeak for Windows is slow, and for some reason split caps is on, making eSpeak say "capital" all the time. Furthermore, Eloquence's flexibility and the ability for it to be controlled far more than any other speech synthesizer is what makes even using it with all punctuation enabled, barable, whereas I could not stand doing that with other content accessing technology except Braille, which shows punctuation anyway. So, any ideas? Or are there ways around my problems with Linux that I just haven't heard about? Sure, Orca is okay, but NVDA's pollish with the web, and Microsoft's Office apps and such really do hold me into Windows. In fact, Emacs is the only thing I miss from Linux. I did try using VmWare to run a Linux virtual machine, but the set up said it couldn't install DLL files, probably because I'm in the Windows Insider program, which is another thing I like about Windows, that one can test software for them and provide feedback which others can upvote and such. So, if Emacspeak for Windows could be improved, that would really help a lot.

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