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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=345271802-04022012>Thanks for the report on
your experience . It's good to know that voices that I thought were messed up in
Dectalk for NVDA #2 can be fixed with simple pitch modifications.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=345271802-04022012>Blake</SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com
[mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Carlos
Fernandez<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 03, 2012 5:47 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
DECtalk Discussions<BR><B>Subject:</B> [DECtalk] regarding nvda dectalk driver
number 2<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>I have tried this driver, and want to report that the voices have nothing
wrong with them. It is true that only Paul, Dennis, Rita, and Harry work
outright, but simple pitch changes render the voices normal-sounding. This was,
as some of you might remember, a problem with the eloquence driver, which was
accordingly fixed. I believe that this driver may also be fixed. Also, an issue
would occur if a particular executable file in the driver folder was not in use,
making the driver unusable. All that must be done to fix this is to put a
shortcut to that executable in the startup folder, before NVDA, so that the
driver is initialized first. As others might remember, this was and still is
true with using the kurzweil dectalk access32 with JAWS. In short, nothing
nonfixable is in this driver, at least at this moment.</DIV>
<P> I have also attached a rough sample of the voices, on a
bad microphone.</P></BODY></HTML>