[DECtalk] decTalk with rate boost for NVDA?

Josh Kennedy joshknnd1982 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 4 12:29:05 EST 2024


I just tried it. It works excellent. Maybe this will get added into NVDA
soon, somehow with a decTalk 4.99 addon or something like that. In the
meantime, I can play with it using dt-pad.


On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 12:10 PM Miguel Villagomez <miguelv064 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The only thing that comes close to what you're looking for is the Samples
> per Frame, spf, parameter in DECtalk 4.99.
> This parameter is exclusive to DECtalk 4.99, as it was added in this
> version. It's accessed by using [:spf NNN], where NNN is the percentage of
> samples from the default (100 is the default).
> What this does is that it changes the speed of the output regardless of
> the setting in the [:rate] command.
> The NVDA add-on doesn't allow you to use DECtalk commands by default,
> since NVDA blocks the use of the square brackets and the colon symbols to
> make DECtalk commands work. You'll have to go into NVDA's Punctuation and
> Symbol pronunciation dialog to have those symbols be sent to the
> synthesizer always via the "Send actual symbol to Synthesizer" combobox.
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