[DECtalk] softvoice nvda addon with majer improvements

Jake Gross datajake at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 00:42:39 EST 2015


I admit, this addon needs more work than adding voice settings. When I
switched to the PW Webspeak Softvoice from the Talk It! Softvoice, the
speech cuts off. I don't know how to fix this problum.
Jake

On 12/6/15, Alex H. <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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