[DECtalk] mbrola voices for nvda

[Ulysses GarciaGreenGablesFan]

Well, I was able to get MBROLA to work, finally! Five years ago, I had 
trouble installing it on the same system. Now I know why. I didn't 
install any of the voices, which they termed as databases. I also didn't 
realise that the tool only used diphones. It didn't use raw text like I 
thought it did, and my knowledge about linguistics was limited.
I think the way they made the Christmas song was the same way Orpheus 
and Eloquence were being made to sing. You take parts of the word, or in 
this case the diphones, and you set the values of the prosodic 
intonation to make it appear as if it was either talking or singing. 
This practice is in use by speech pathologists who use melodic 
intonation therapy for people who have aphasia after a stroke. The math 
involved in computer programming is pretty complex, but to put it 
simply, it's just a way of telling the machine what to do with it, when 
to do it, and how to do it.
One problem I have at the present is that I cannot add any more voices. 
The database dialogue popped once when I initially installed the 
programme, but now it's no longer visible, so I cannot install more 
voices even though I've copied them into the programme directory.

On 29/06/2015 17:31, Blake Roberts via Dectalk wrote:
> I just discovered that although I copied the link after visiting the MBROLA
> download page, it leads back to the home page. To download the tools binary
> and voices select the "download" link and then your operating system. Like
> Alex, I don't like the voices either. I tried the voices via Jake's NVDA
> add-on this morning after installing onto an XP system. The only thing I
> could htink was "Yuck!" I don't like the quality of MBROLA voices.
> Blake
>
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> Roberts via Dectalk
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> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] mbrola voices for nvda
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> Ulysses, Here is a link to download the MBROLA binary and voices.
> http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/
> I don't think the synth has been updated in recent years though I don't know
> this for certain. I base my conclusion on the fact that the last update is
> listed in 2005. Although I have Windows 7 64-bit, I have not tried
> installing it on this system. Since the voices are not SAPI, I think the
> best way to use them would be via Jake's NVDA add-on after installing the
> binary MBROLA tools. I think it is possible to make the SAPI5 version of
> ESpeak interface with MBROLA voices via command-line parameters when
> installing the SAPI ESpeak. However those commands allude me at present.
>
> As for singing, I heard a recording of MBROLA voices singing "We Wish You A
> Merry Christmas" years ago but have no idea how that was created.
> Blake
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of
> Ulysses GarciaGreenGablesFan via Dectalk
> Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 7:17 PM
> To: Jake Gross
> Cc: Ulysses GarciaGreenGablesFan; DECtalk
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] mbrola voices for nvda
>
> Is MBROLA updated regularly? I googled MBROLA Download but it brought me
> to a bunch of mirrors that didn't lead to anything.
> If someone could kindly send me the link, either on or off list, I'd
> greatly appreciate it.
> Thanks.
>
> On 29/06/2015 11:18, Jake Gross wrote:
>> Mbrola will work on 64-bit systems.
>>
>>
>> On 6/29/15, Ulysses GarciaGreenGablesFan <Green_Gables_fan33 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>>> I'd be interested in this, but there's no download link to the MBROLA 2
>>> voice. Does it work on Windows Seven 64? Also, I'd like to learn how to
>>> make it sing. It's too bad that I can't use Willow Pond with that
>>> operating system.
>>>
>>> On 28/06/2015 23:46, Jake Gross via Dectalk wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I created an addon that allows you to use the mbrola voices with nvda.
>>>> Espeak is used to do the text to phoneme conversion.
>>>> Please note that you must have mbrola tools installed for  this addon
>>>> to work properly.
>>>> The download link for the addon is:
>>>>
> http://grossgang.com/tts/synthesizers%20for%20nvda/mbrola%20in%20espeak.nvda
> -addon
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