[DECtalk] softvoice nvda addon with majer improvements

Brandon brandongold98 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 6 13:38:28 EST 2015


Hello,

It was set to 50, which is the default as far as I could see.
Should it be at 0?

Thanks,

Brandon
On 12/6/2015 1:15 PM, Mohamed wrote:
> That's perturbation, most likely it's set to a high level.
>
> On 12/06/15 11:16 AM, Brandon wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> My experiences with this add-on are that while I was able to get the 
>> pitch sorted out and set to what I like, whenever I restart NVDA it 
>> gets really shaky (if I can immitate it with text it says desktop 
>> list as deh ehh ehh ehh ehh ehh esktop list).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Brandon
>>
>> On 12/6/2015 10:52 AM, Mohamed wrote:
>>> Actually you don't have to uncheck language switching anymore. The 
>>> issue with the voice pitch is that the parameters for the voices are 
>>> stored internally, so you have to switch to get the defaults. You 
>>> have to adjust the pitch manually. Probably four or five is the best.
>>>
>>> On 12/06/15 09:04 AM, Blake Roberts wrote:
>>>> My experience with the new SoftVoice NVDA add-on is interesting. 
>>>> Every time
>>>> I load it, the voice sounds very high-pitched and unintelligible, 
>>>> to be
>>>> frank. It sounds sort of like The Fly at a high pitch, but that is 
>>>> only an
>>>> approximation. The only way I could change voice variants was 
>>>> reading the
>>>> NVDA menu in braille. If I switch voices, the problem goes away 
>>>> until NVDA
>>>> exits. This weird behavior upon loading the add-on occurs 
>>>> regardless of
>>>> which voice I have selected. Strange! And yes I did use another 
>>>> synth to
>>>> uncheck the automatic language switching, dialect switching and 
>>>> trust voice
>>>> punctuation/symbols before loading Softvoice for the first time. I 
>>>> think for
>>>> now I will switch back to Acapela TTS for NVDA which I purchased 
>>>> licenses
>>>> for earlier this year.
>>>> Blake
>>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>>> Of Jake
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>>>> http://grossgang.com/tts/synthesizers%20for%20nvda/softvoice.nvda-addon 
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