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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Do you think that Espeak’s sapi5 interface could be modified or added to, so it could load the decTalk dll files and load softVoice dll files? This way we could have really excellent sapi5 implementations of decTalk and softVoice willowPond tts as a part of Espeak. The decTalks we are using are abandonware anyway. So I don’t think anybody will really care. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Josh</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:aksel@blindsigtmail.dk">Aksel Leo Christoffersen</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, July 16, 2019 16:33<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">'DECtalk'</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [DECtalk] my decTalk sounds strange</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DA style='color:#1F497D'>My DECtalk Express sometimes says the pitch frequencies, when I change the pitch in NVDA, when I use my DECtalk Express with my computer, and I have a list somewhere of the pitch frequencies for the individual voices. So that way, I can work out a list of pitches for each voices, and send it to you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DA style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DA style='color:#1F497D'>However, it’ll probably take some time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DA style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DA style='color:#1F497D'>Best regards:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DA style='color:#1F497D'>Aksel Christoffersen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DA style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=DA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Fra:</span></b><span lang=DA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com] <b>På vegne af </b>Josh Kennedy<br><b>Sendt:</b> 16. juli 2019 22:28<br><b>Til:</b> DECtalk<br><b>Emne:</b> Re: [DECtalk] my decTalk sounds strange<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yes I think you are right. I wonder what the pitches for the other voices should be? The bug is when I switch voices the pitch does not change in order to match the voice I am switching it to using the NVDA addon. I wonder how difficult it would be to add decTalk and softVoice as voices in Espeak? It would probably just be a matter of having Espeak load the dll files for decTalk and or softVoice tts and assigning them an espeak voice, such as:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dt+m1 for Paul, and so on. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:aksel@blindsigtmail.dk">Aksel Leo Christoffersen</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, July 16, 2019 16:19<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">'DECtalk'</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [DECtalk] my decTalk sounds strange<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DA style='color:#1F497D'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DA style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DA style='color:#1F497D'>I think the exact right pitch is 24 %.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DA style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DA style='color:#1F497D'>Best regards:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DA style='color:#1F497D'>Aksel Christoffersen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DA style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=DA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Fra:</span></b><span lang=DA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com] <b>På vegne af </b>Josh Kennedy<br><b>Sendt:</b> 16. juli 2019 22:17<br><b>Til:</b> dectalk@bluegrasspals.com<br><b>Emne:</b> [DECtalk] my decTalk sounds strange<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The decTalk addon I am using was not sounding quite right when I compared it to some of the decTalk speak windows. I found out why. There is a bug in the addon where when you switch decTalk voices, the pitch is not set correctly. The pitch was set to 16, I was using Paul which is my favorite voice, and it sounded strange because Paul’s pitch for NVDA should be set to 25%. I changed it, now decTalk sounds much better. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Josh<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>