[DECtalk] NV Speech Player

Carlos Fernandez cf530a at gmail.com
Thu Jul 10 21:43:33 EDT 2014


Well, it is open-source, so it probably wouldn't be too hard to make a 
standalone utility. Come to think of it, I think I could make one even 
more easily. Back in an hour...

Carlos
On 7/10/2014 20:39, Jayson Smith wrote:
> 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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