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<p>Are they a lot more responsive if you do tiny and small? <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/7/2017 7:58 PM, Brandon Tyson
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<pre wrap="">Hello,
To solve voice response issues you can build a smaller voice set e.g.
Select the Tiny/Small instead of the other choices. Then you should
still be able to do hand corrections to the audio, but it won't sound
quite as good overall but this is an option and they still are
intelligible.
Thanks,
Brandon
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<pre wrap="">Josh, Your experience with Jake's Circum Reality Keynote voice explains why
it made my screen reader crash a few minutes after I started using it
months
ago. Ulysses, The Keynote voice referred to is Jake's Circum Reality
version
of the Keynote Gold synthesizer. I believe Jake used his Braille Note
notetaker which contains the Keynote voice and recorded thousands of words
with it via Circum Reality software. I think the Keynote voice used in the
recording is a card or chip within the Braille Note.
Luis, I know that Cereproc offers a voice creation service for a fee. I
contacted Cereproc a year or two ago asking about accessibility of the
process. Specifically I wanted to know if creation of a Cereproc voice
requires Flash. The answer was yes for setup of the headset which they ship
after voice creator purchases the service. The rest of the process is
apparently in HTML5. That's what I was told then. I chose not to purchase
CereVoice service at that time because Flash requirement would prevent me
from independently completing the process. I don't know if Flash is still
utilized in Cereproc's voice creation service (CereVoice). I have no idea
about the voice creation process for making an Acapela or Cepstral voice.
Blake
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From: Josh Kennedy [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com">mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com</a>]
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2017 5:43 PM
To: DECtalk; Luis Carlos González Moráles; Blake Roberts
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] voice creation
last time i tried it the keynote sapi5 voice that he made is very very slow
and unresponsive. that is just how the circumReality voices are. With NVDA
its almost unuseable.
On 9/7/2017 5:22 PM, Luis Carlos González Moráles wrote:
Circum Reality. and If you didn't know, CereProc, Acapela Group, Cepstral,
ETC. Have the capability to build your oune voice, but I don't know where
we, I say I, can start.
Ulysses Harmony Garcia via Dectalk escribió:
Hi Blake,
I didn't know there was a KeyNote voice for SAPI 5. How was this converted?
What does CR stand for?
-Ulysses
On 9/7/2017 12:53 PM, Blake Roberts wrote:
Yes, some of the Circum Reality voices sound good. It's also wonderful that
Jake Gross made a SAPI keynote. I did not know that I could record myself
saying a word for correct intonation. Is version of Circum Reality on
Jake's
site the most recent version? My only issue with CR on Jake's site is lack
of uninstaller. Removing a installed CircumReality voice requires editing
the registry. I had to do that when I had CR voice(s) on my computer some
time ago. Editing the registry scares me because of the damage incorrectly
editing registry entries can do to a computer. Is there a newer version of
CR available which uninstalls a voice/ removes voice/CR registry keys?
Blake
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Brandon Tyson
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2017 12:47 PM
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Subject: Re: [DECtalk] voice creation
Hello,
I wanted to touch on one point please:
Even if they can’t do SAPI, and even though this wouldn’t be the same, I’m
still quite happy with the now open-sourced CircumReality voice and think
that they sound pretty good.
What I particularly like about those is that even if they do have a
mispronunciation, it’s giving you the possibility to change the way a
particular word, or even whole phrases, sound through manual hand made
recordings, I think, which would theoretically be used in conjunction with
the synthesizer itself.
Does this make sense?
E.g. A user types in “Wow!” but they find the intonation is incorrect. It
says “wow.” Instead, making it sound boring. So the user can go in and
manually correct this to have it say “Wow!” correctly by making an
individual recording for that.
Thanks,
Brandon
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Subject: Re: [DECtalk] voice creation
Yuly, GPU is the Graphics processing unit, and the CPU is the central
processing unit.
A neural net is is a way for computers to learn as a human does, through
artificial intelligence.
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On Sep 7, 2017, at 7:39 AM, Ulysses Harmony Garcia via Dectalk
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com"><dectalk@bluegrasspals.com></a> wrote:
What is GPU, and how is that different from CPU? Also, how does neural
networking work? Does the computer map out a brain on a series of
coordinates the way it does when mapping out an MRI or 3D printing the
model
of the brain? I'm interested in knowing what programming languages,
interpreter scripts, etc they use so that people in college and university
labs who do neuroscientific work can build more neural networks to
experiment on.
I've read some sci-fi literature on how mind-uploading could work, but the
problem is that it would be nearly impossible to calculate the exact number
of neurones, neurotransmitters, synapses, and receptors, and which memories
or part of identity they link up to. It would require a huge load of
processing and a really high knowledge of map coordination in three
dimensions to put a series of binary code in each region of how the brain
would look like.
-Ulysses
On 9/7/2017 5:22 AM, Piotr Machacz wrote:
I don’t think LyreBird will ever be able to make local voices, SAPI or
otherwise. At least not in the near future. The way I understand it, their
system uses a massive GPU cluster to run a neural net that gets trained on
people’s voices (this is why if you make enough recordings it learns to
mimic you so well). It literally makes connections and figures out patterns
like a human brain. If you were to run something like this on a single home
computer, even one with a beefy CPU or preferably a good high end GPU, I
imagine it would take days to train, and then minutes if not a few hours to
generate 1 clip of speech. That being said, neural nets are getting more
and
more common and are started to be used on a small scale on computers or
phones, and some companies like Microsoft or Google are developing
processor
chips designed specifically for neural nets. So maybe you’ll see this
become
an offline technology in a few years. For now, we know that lyrebird wants
to make an API available for this technology, so you can expect apps and
websites to make use of it (IE a chatting website might let you enter your
voice fingerprint and then you can talk to other people by typing text and
getting your actual voice out, or perhaps getting news or weather spoken to
you with your own voice)
On 7 Sep 2017, at 11:13, Jayson Smith <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jaybird@bluegrasspals.com"><jaybird@bluegrasspals.com></a> wrote:
Hi,
I don't know of any other voice creation program which can make a SAPI
voice. If you still have the original recordings, and you still own the
copyright in and to them I.E. you didn't sign some sort of agreement giving
all your rights to Innoetics, you should in theory be able to use such a
service if one were to exist at some point in the future. You might try
contacting Lyrebird and explaining your situation, see what they say.
Sorry I can't be of more help,
Jayson
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<pre wrap="">can create a SAPI from already recorded sentence wave files? I spent
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