[DECtalk] softvoice nvda addon with majer improvements

Mohamed malhajamy at gmail.com
Sun Dec 6 10:52:02 EST 2015


Actually you don't have to uncheck language switching anymore. The issue 
with the voice pitch is that the parameters for the voices are stored 
internally, so you have to switch to get the defaults. You have to 
adjust the pitch manually. Probably four or five is the best.

On 12/06/15 09:04 AM, Blake Roberts wrote:
> My experience with the new SoftVoice NVDA add-on is interesting. Every time
> I load it, the voice sounds very high-pitched and unintelligible, to be
> frank. It sounds sort of like The Fly at a high pitch, but that is only an
> approximation. The only way I could change voice variants was reading the
> NVDA menu in braille. If I switch voices, the problem goes away until NVDA
> exits. This weird behavior upon loading the add-on occurs regardless of
> which voice I have selected. Strange! And yes I did use another synth to
> uncheck the automatic language switching, dialect switching and trust voice
> punctuation/symbols before loading Softvoice for the first time. I think for
> now I will switch back to Acapela TTS for NVDA which I purchased licenses
> for earlier this year.
> Blake
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> http://grossgang.com/tts/synthesizers%20for%20nvda/softvoice.nvda-addon
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