[DECtalk] NV Speech Player

Jayson Smith jaybird at bluegrasspals.com
Thu Jul 10 21:39:06 EDT 2014


Try
http://is.gd/lRNIZa
That should get you an NVDA Add-on. Would still love to have a standalone 
executable or something, since I use Jaws as my primary screen reader.
Jayson


----- Original Message -----
From: Carlos Fernandez <cf530a at gmail.com>
To: DECtalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:27:31 -0500
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] NV Speech Player

> Whoa--what a really big run-on!
> Is there a convenient link for the compiled version of this? All I have 
> found so far is the code. I do intend to look at the code to see about 
> changing the accent, adding other languages, and modifying it so female 
> voices are easily done, but a compiled version would be nice. If not, I 
> can compile it and provide this on-list.
> 
> Carlos
> On 7/10/2014 19:51, Blake Roberts wrote:
> > Hmm, I don't like the accent either. Perhaps future updates to the
> > synthesizer will include additional languages such as American English. 
The
> > accent of this synthesizer is a bit difficult to comprehend.
> > Blake
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
> > [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Jayson Smith
> > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 8:37 PM
> > To: DECtalk
> > Subject: Re: [DECtalk] NV Speech Player
> >
> > Here you go.
> > http://bluegrasspals.com/nvspeech.mp3
> >
> > I go through all the parameters you can adjust, then I have it read a
> > really long sentence I wrote several years ago. For reference purposes,
> > below is the text of the long sentence.
> >
> > Once upon a time there was a guy who entered into a research study where
> > they were implanting human minds in inanimate objects so he was
> > implanted into a hedge trimmer and everything went well so he was
> > transferred back into his human body but the intelligence never left the
> > hedge trimmer and when it woke up it decided to call itself a
> > hyper-intelligent hedge trimmer so then it went out and built a space
> > station and converted a lot of humans to its own kind.
> >
> > Jayson
> >
> > On 7/10/2014 8:22 PM, Blake Roberts wrote:
> >> Could you make a recording of the synthesizer so that we can hear it?
> >> Blake
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
> >> [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Jayson Smith
> >> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 8:20 PM
> >> To: DECtalk Discussions
> >> Subject: [DECtalk] NV Speech Player
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Recently I heard about a new NVDA addon called NV Speech Player. This 
is
> >> a Klat based speech synthesizer. Unfortunately for me, it has an accent
> >> I don't like, or I'd seriously play with this. I also wish there was a
> >> stand-alone version where you could send textual commands to change the
> >> parameters, just like in DECtalk. There are lots of parameters you can
> >> adjust to get all sorts of voices.
> >> Jayson
> >>
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