[DECtalk] softvoice nvda addon with majer improvements

Mohamed malhajamy at gmail.com
Sun Dec 6 13:15:28 EST 2015


That's perturbation, most likely it's set to a high level.

On 12/06/15 11:16 AM, Brandon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My experiences with this add-on are that while I was able to get the 
> pitch sorted out and set to what I like, whenever I restart NVDA it 
> gets really shaky (if I can immitate it with text it says desktop list 
> as deh ehh ehh ehh ehh ehh esktop list).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brandon
>
> On 12/6/2015 10:52 AM, Mohamed wrote:
>> 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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