[DECtalk] some very very great news

[Mohamed]

ON a sidenote, the softvoice add on can handle commands sent to it in a 
similar way. You have to add the left and right double braces to the 
symbols dictionary manually though, to said the preservation to always 
there as well, and you can then pass commands to softvoice.

On 09/24/15 05:53 PM, brandon T via Dectalk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If it's just the single add-on, I think it's 4.60.
> This is different than the 4.6.1 and 4.6.4 versions.
>
> It's the one that came with Window-Eyes.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brandon
>
> On 9/24/15, Mohamed via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>> Although, if you want to actually do serious singing, it's still not a
>> replacement for the speak window, as it is still somewhat buggy. For
>> instance, there's a bug where it will reset speech back to what NVDA had
>> set every line. For example, if you typed into a text editor, [:nf] I am
>> alive. I am DECtalk. I am still here even now. Don't you think it's
>> still awesome that certain people still like me? I sure do! and pasted
>> it in and read it, NVDA will reset it back to Paul in the second
>> sentence. Also, it seems that if you adjust rates, consonants are
>> lengthened or shortened. For example, try removing the rate parameters
>> from the Rickety tickety Tin song that's on Snoopi Botton's site, and
>> drag the speed around in NVDA, you'll notice the effect it has on the
>> consonants, it makes the song sound faster or slower. Although it races
>> the question, I'm wondering what version of DECtalk the add on is using?
>> It might be 4.3, because it does have a little bit of vibrato in its
>> singing.
>>
>> On 09/24/15 01:20 PM, Alex H. via Dectalk wrote:
>>> Woe man! That's actually really, really cool!
>>>
>>> Great news indeed. It'll make working at a desk all day real fun. :D
>>>
>>> On 9/24/15, Mohamed via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone. I have some very,, very, very great news to tell you all.
>>>> The NVDA DECtalk can now not only process commands, but can now sing!
>>>> Here's how you get it to work. First, ensure you have the latest next
>>>> snapshot of NVDA with DECtalk installed. Then, go into your dectalk.py
>>>> file. There's a line of code that is actually blocking speech commands
>>>> from coming to the synthesizer. It's marked with the comment, "#prevent
>>>> control strings from going into our text", just search for a number sign
>>>> and it will come up. Although if you want the code quickly, paste this
>>>> line into the find dialog. Note: be sure to tab three times, I am unable
>>>> to put them here because thunderbird just puts several spaces instead of
>>>> the tab symbol.
>>>> item = item.replace('[:', ' ')
>>>> Remove that line only, and leave the rest. Now, there's a new combo box
>>>> introduced in the latest next snapshot of NVDA called send actual symbol
>>>> to synthesizer. Find the left bracket, right bracket, underline, less
>>>> than, greater than, and colon symbols. In the combo box that says send
>>>> actual symbol to synthesizer, set that option to always for each symbol.
>>>> And, enjoy your new singing NVDA!
>>>> PS.
>>>> Make sure you read it from the top of the file from the [:phone on]
>>>> command to the end so DECtalk can process them correctly.
>>>> PPS
>>>> Since NVDA has no synth specific symbols dictionary, you may notice side
>>>> effects of the change with other synthesizers.
>>>> Hope you guys enjoy.
>>>>
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