[DECtalk] regarding nvda dectalk driver number 2

Carlos Fernandez cf530a at gmail.com
Sat Feb 4 12:32:02 EST 2012


BlankHere are pitch values that work for me:
Paul: 17
Betty: 52
Harry: 12
Frank: 32
Dennis: 17
Ursula: 62
Kit: 82
Rita: 17
Wendy: 47

Carlos
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Blake Roberts 
  To: 'DECtalk Discussions' 
  Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 8:27 PM
  Subject: Re: [DECtalk] regarding nvda dectalk driver number 2


  Thanks for the report on your experience . It's good to know that voices that I thought were messed up in Dectalk for NVDA #2 can be fixed with simple pitch modifications.
  Blake



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  From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Carlos Fernandez
  Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 5:47 PM
  To: DECtalk Discussions
  Subject: [DECtalk] regarding nvda dectalk driver number 2


  I have tried this driver, and want to report that the voices have nothing wrong with them. It is true that only Paul, Dennis, Rita, and Harry work outright, but simple pitch changes render the voices normal-sounding. This was, as some of you might remember, a problem with the eloquence driver, which was accordingly fixed. I believe that this driver may also be fixed. Also, an issue would occur if a particular executable file in the driver folder was not in use, making the driver unusable. All that must be done to fix this is to put a shortcut to that executable in the startup folder, before NVDA, so that the driver is initialized first. As others might remember, this was and still is true with using the kurzweil dectalk access32 with JAWS. In short, nothing nonfixable is in this driver, at least at this moment.
      I have also attached a rough sample of the voices, on a bad microphone.



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