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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I wrote to the espeak-ng email list asking them if it would be possible to make the espeak sapi5 interface load decTalk dll’s and softVoice-tts dll’s and use them as extra voices. I told them that both decTalk and softVoice have their own phonemes and everything so all it would need to do is load the dll’s, use them as voices, and fix that voice-pitch bug with decTalk.</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</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:beroberts@hughes.net">Blake Roberts</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, July 17, 2019 16:55<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">DECtalk</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [DECtalk] A list of NVDA-pitches for DECtalk</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Thank you Aksel for the pitch list. The pitch bug you previously identified in Dectalk for NVDA explains why by default Kit does not sound like a kid. While attempting to change the voices to the pitches recommended by Aksel today, I was reminded of what I consider to be another bug. I'm using the Dectalk 4.5 add-on. If I change the pitch for one voice, it changes the pitch for the other 8 voices to match. So if I change Paul's pitch, Harry sounds like Frank. Apparently each voice does not have its own pitch setting in NVDA add-on... I have not tried this lately with other Dectalk for NVDA versions but I recall same experience when I used other Dectalk for NVDA versions in the past.<br>Question: Are all of the various Dectalk for NVDA add-ons compatible with the current version of NVDA? I tried to install Dectalk 4.4 NVDA add-on and received "failed to install" error even though the file downloaded correctly.<br>Blake<br> <br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: Aksel Leo Christoffersen <aksel@blindsigtmail.dk><br>To: 'DECtalk' <dectalk@bluegrasspals.com><br>Sent: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 07:24:07 -0400 (EDT)<br>Subject: [DECtalk] A list of NVDA-pitches for DECtalk<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D'>Hi Josh and others interested,</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D'>Here’s a list of the pitches, that you’ll need to set the DECtalk in NVDA to, if you want the right sound. Some of my calculations resulted in a decimal number, so I just gave the closest number.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D'>Here’s the list:</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=DA style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Paul = 24 %</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=DA style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Betty = 53 %</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=DA style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Harry = 13 %</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=DA style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Frank = 35 %</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=DA style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Dennis = 20 %</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=DA style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Kit = 85 %</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=DA style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Ursula = 63 %</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=DA style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Rita = 19 %</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=DA style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Wendy = 50 %</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=DA style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=DA style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>It could be very nice, if someone could program this into the nvda addon for each DECtalk Version. However, this list doesn’t aply to DECtalk versions above 4.60.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=DA style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=DA style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Best regards:</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=DA style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Aksel Christoffersen</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>