[DECtalk] NV Speech Player

brandon T brandongold98 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 10 23:32:23 EDT 2014


Hi,

I have a recording of this back in January.

I can send you what that sounded like.

Older builds are actually better in my opinion because they sound like
Eloquence, but not this one from January.

I will send it to you.

It is the default voice.

Thanks,

Brandon

On 7/10/14, Carlos Fernandez <cf530a at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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