[DECtalk] some very very great news

[Mohamed]

And I'm also thinking about if this would work in the sapi 5 DECtalk, 
although it might depend on if it's able to pass it. Because I was 
looking at the NVDA log, and it seems to be just sending index commands 
when it reads phonemes, and I'm wondering if SAPI 5 would handle it 
properly.

On 09/24/15 06:06 PM, Mohamed wrote:
> ON a sidenote, the softvoice add on can handle commands sent to it in 
> a similar way. You have to add the left and right double braces to the 
> symbols dictionary manually though, to said the preservation to always 
> there as well, and you can then pass commands to softvoice.
>
> On 09/24/15 05:53 PM, brandon T via Dectalk wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> If it's just the single add-on, I think it's 4.60.
>> This is different than the 4.6.1 and 4.6.4 versions.
>>
>> It's the one that came with Window-Eyes.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Brandon
>>
>> On 9/24/15, Mohamed via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>> Although, if you want to actually do serious singing, it's still not a
>>> replacement for the speak window, as it is still somewhat buggy. For
>>> instance, there's a bug where it will reset speech back to what NVDA 
>>> had
>>> set every line. For example, if you typed into a text editor, [:nf] 
>>> I am
>>> alive. I am DECtalk. I am still here even now. Don't you think it's
>>> still awesome that certain people still like me? I sure do! and pasted
>>> it in and read it, NVDA will reset it back to Paul in the second
>>> sentence. Also, it seems that if you adjust rates, consonants are
>>> lengthened or shortened. For example, try removing the rate parameters
>>> from the Rickety tickety Tin song that's on Snoopi Botton's site, and
>>> drag the speed around in NVDA, you'll notice the effect it has on the
>>> consonants, it makes the song sound faster or slower. Although it races
>>> the question, I'm wondering what version of DECtalk the add on is 
>>> using?
>>> It might be 4.3, because it does have a little bit of vibrato in its
>>> singing.
>>>
>>> On 09/24/15 01:20 PM, Alex H. via Dectalk wrote:
>>>> Woe man! That's actually really, really cool!
>>>>
>>>> Great news indeed. It'll make working at a desk all day real fun. :D
>>>>
>>>> On 9/24/15, Mohamed via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi everyone. I have some very,, very, very great news to tell you 
>>>>> all.
>>>>> The NVDA DECtalk can now not only process commands, but can now sing!
>>>>> Here's how you get it to work. First, ensure you have the latest next
>>>>> snapshot of NVDA with DECtalk installed. Then, go into your 
>>>>> dectalk.py
>>>>> file. There's a line of code that is actually blocking speech 
>>>>> commands
>>>>> from coming to the synthesizer. It's marked with the comment, 
>>>>> "#prevent
>>>>> control strings from going into our text", just search for a 
>>>>> number sign
>>>>> and it will come up. Although if you want the code quickly, paste 
>>>>> this
>>>>> line into the find dialog. Note: be sure to tab three times, I am 
>>>>> unable
>>>>> to put them here because thunderbird just puts several spaces 
>>>>> instead of
>>>>> the tab symbol.
>>>>> item = item.replace('[:', ' ')
>>>>> Remove that line only, and leave the rest. Now, there's a new 
>>>>> combo box
>>>>> introduced in the latest next snapshot of NVDA called send actual 
>>>>> symbol
>>>>> to synthesizer. Find the left bracket, right bracket, underline, less
>>>>> than, greater than, and colon symbols. In the combo box that says 
>>>>> send
>>>>> actual symbol to synthesizer, set that option to always for each 
>>>>> symbol.
>>>>> And, enjoy your new singing NVDA!
>>>>> PS.
>>>>> Make sure you read it from the top of the file from the [:phone on]
>>>>> command to the end so DECtalk can process them correctly.
>>>>> PPS
>>>>> Since NVDA has no synth specific symbols dictionary, you may 
>>>>> notice side
>>>>> effects of the change with other synthesizers.
>>>>> Hope you guys enjoy.
>>>>>
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