[DECtalk] softvoice nvda addon with majer improvements

[Alex H.]

I couldn't eve get this addon to load. Error using the latest next NVD
snapshot. Buggy pile.

On 12/6/15, Brandon <brandongold98 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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-----
>>>>> From: Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf
>>>>> Of Jake
>>>>> Gross
>>>>> Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2015 3:25 AM
>>>>> To: dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
>>>>> Subject: [DECtalk] softvoice nvda addon with majer improvements
>>>>>
>>>>> http://grossgang.com/tts/synthesizers%20for%20nvda/softvoice.nvda-addon
>>>>>
>>>>>
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