[DECtalk] some very very great news

[Jake Gross]

The addon uses dectalk 4.60.


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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