[DECtalk] Speech Player recording

Brandon brandongold98 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 11 20:01:20 EDT 2014


By thinking on open-source eloquence was that this version sounds more like eloquence then the later version does. That's why we should do that now. In other words, this one sounds more like the eloquence synthesizer than the latest version does.

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> On Jul 11, 2014, at 7:52 PM, Carlos Fernandez <cf530a at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I really don't understand what you mean. You said
> 
> I'm almost thinking of contacting the developer of this, and asking if I have his permission to turn this into open source speech synthesizer similar to eloquence. I think that speech player has changed too much now, and many people will not like it as much. What do you think? Should I do this? I bet with a little help, I think it would be easy. Plus, it would make it very easy for anybody wanting to speech synthesizer or, it would make it easy for anybody wanting a speech synthesizer..
> What do you mean?
> Also, I think we might want to wait a bit for the developers to finish work on the system before jumping to porting it for use with other readers. In my opinion, this would be premature. Their page says they plan to work on the accent, other languages, and the system as a whole. Maybe we should wait for them to finish up before trying to do anything with it. This is still in beta, so who knows what will happen next. What do you think?
> 
> Carlos
> 
> 
>> On 7/11/2014 17:30, Brandon wrote:
>> I tell you, I really like this copy a speech player. I mean, the earlier version. I'm almost thinking of contacting the developer of this, and asking if I have his permission to turn this into open source speech synthesizer similar to eloquence. I think that speech player has changed too much now, and many people will not like it as much. What do you think? Should I do this? I bet with a little help, I think it would be easy. Plus, it would make it very easy for anybody wanting to speech synthesizer or, it would make it easy for anybody wanting a speech synthesizer.. I am really excited to see what you think. Also, should we make one that works with other screenreaders?
>> That might be hard.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Brandon Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Jul 11, 2014, at 6:02 PM, Carlos Fernandez <cf530a at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have tried this earlier version now, but it doesn't sound any better to me. I think part of the annoyance of this voice is that the consonant sounds are too loud. I think that it sounds better with frame.fricationAmplitude set to 30 or even 20.
>>> 
>>> Carlos
>>>> On 7/11/2014 13:03, brandon T wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> I will upload a version master-ee80f4d. This version will
>>>> unfortunately not work on Windows XP (a version 98 something after
>>>> ee80f4d will barely work on xp).
>>>> It may be choppy, but if you have a high end 64 bit computer, it will
>>>> do very well.
>>>> Also, it will not work on AMD machines.
>>>> 
>>>>> On 7/11/14, Carlos Fernandez <cf530a at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Well, I must say it has improved since that time. If the
>>>>> eloquence-sounding version was earlier, I don't think I want to use it.
>>>>> Also, it seems that I am the only one who doesn't find the accent terrible.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Carlos
>>>>>> On 7/11/2014 06:02, Brandon wrote:
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Here is the recording of one of the very first versions of speech
>>>>>> player that was actually in an NVDA add-on.  If you don't mind please,
>>>>>> can you please not put this recording in the shared folder? I can make
>>>>>> another recording for that.
>>>>>> This was a recording that I originally made for a friend, and I didn't
>>>>>> think I would ever have to send this, but I'm sure my friend will be
>>>>>> ok with this, as I just asked questions in this file (so you can hear
>>>>>> what it sounds like with the default voice).  Also, you had to use
>>>>>> NVDA 2013.3 or lower with this version of Speech Player.  This version
>>>>>> does not have the eloquence type sound that another version does (the
>>>>>> latest version does not have this either).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Brandon
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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