[DECtalk] some very very great news

Mohamed malhajamy at gmail.com
Fri Sep 25 08:38:41 EDT 2015


The latest next snapshot and the standard DECtalk add on.

On 09/25/15 03:40 AM, mattias jonsson via Dectalk wrote:
> Also
> Wich dectalk addon there is 2
> And wish snapshot?
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> And I'm also thinking about if this would work in the sapi 5 DECtalk, although it might depend on if it's able to pass it. Because I was looking at the NVDA log, and it seems to be just sending index commands when it reads phonemes, and I'm wondering if SAPI 5 would handle it properly.
>
> On 09/24/15 06:06 PM, Mohamed wrote:
>> 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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