[blindza] Re: Dumb question relating to recorded audio tutorials/walkthroughs TTS speed
- From: "Jacob Kruger" <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:21:36 +0200
Closest have come in past to finding a realSpeak afrikaans voice was when had
gotten hold of flemish realSpeak voice, since it's close enough to read
Afrikaans sometimes, but not always.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
----- Original Message -----
From: Boshoff, Deon (GP Health)
To: blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 8:57 AM
Subject: [blindza] Re: Dumb question relating to recorded audio
tutorials/walkthroughs TTS speed
Can't remember which version of RealSpeak it was, but it was the one that
came with Jaws 8. I don't use it any more, so I might even have a hard time to
find it amongst all my others...☺ It's quite a large thing, and has many
English/Spanish voices, even two or so nice Australian voices. Wish it had a
good Afrikaans, but with Afrikaans, NVDA is still tops!
Deon [G. Boshoff, BA[Stell]UDC[Potch]
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-----Original Message-----
From: blindza-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blindza-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Jacob Kruger
Sent: 16 February 2012 08:44 AM
To: blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blindza] Re: Dumb question relating to recorded audio
tutorials/walkthroughs TTS speed
Which version of realSpeak do you have installed?
The extra CD I got along with like jaws 8 or 9 would install the realSpeak
voices available to other software, but the latest ones you download off FS
website only work within jaws etc. itself.
STay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
----- Original Message -----
From: Carel Ewald
To: blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 7:54 AM
Subject: [blindza] Re: Dumb question relating to recorded audio
tutorials/walkthroughs TTS speed
Deon,
Take me through how to select realspeak with NVDA. It is not shown under
my list of synthesizers.
Thanks,
Carel Ewald
+27 83 463 4023
From: Boshoff, Deon (GP Health) [mailto:Deon.Boshoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 16 February 2012 07:52 AM
To: blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blindza] Re: Dumb question relating to recorded audio
tutorials/walkthroughs TTS speed
Well, NVDA is really the very best portable screen reader in the World,
as it needs no video intercept drivers, like Jaws and all the others; it's
really plug and play! And, there is an Eloquence synth for NVDA; the one used
with Jaws will not work with NVDA; NVDA has it's own. Pity the server is down
at this stage, but when it comes on again, you should check out the channel;
NVDA TIPS AND TRICKS, at
www.inclusiveplanet.com
Also, NVDA works equally well on 32-bit systems as with 64-bit ones,
while with Jaws, one needs the correct version for your system. I also prefer
the portable version, but if one installs NVDA with the Afrikaans synth, you
will find a program under Program files / NVDA, called Af TTS, or something,
which you can use to convert written text into wma or mp3, using any synth that
you have installed on your computer, by simply pasting your text into a box and
hitting convert.... Of course FS and all the others would wish you not to use
Eloq; each thinks, or wants the world to believe it belongs only to them, so
you can't buy Eloq, unless you buy their products, and, at what cost?☺
And, remember Jaws 8? Well, it had an extra CD in the box, with RealSpeak Solo
on, and that works real well with NVDA...I think I posted an mp3 sample in the
above mentioned channel. We may all be so used to Jaws that we don't feel like
trying out any other, but lately, Windows has moved off from accessibility, and
it seems that open source programs like NVDA can really help us now. This USB
sound card thing you were referring to, plus a memory stick with NVDA portable
on it, can surely be of much help to you when you suddenly are confronted with
a speechless computer in, maybe a Cybre Cafe, or when you have to work on a
sighted person's computer!
Deon [G. Boshoff, BA[Stell]UDC[Potch]
WESKOPPIES HOSPITAL
Tel: 0123199735
Mobile: 0829699571
Fax: 0123277076
Bleeper: 0123199820, code 0002
E-mail:
Deon.boshoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Deon.boshoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
WEB;
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-----Original Message-----
From: blindza-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blindza-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jacob Kruger
Sent: 16 February 2012 07:23 AM
To: blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blindza] Re: Dumb question relating to recorded audio
tutorials/walkthroughs TTS speed
Partly, since I primarily use NVDA to either test certain things, or
use it to specifically read afrikaans etc., with the eSpeak voices, but
otherwise, I am running a relatively recent version of NVDA, so don't think
that one would, off-hand work with jaws 13's eloquence synthesizer, but, main
thing now is that while newish NVDA, I stick to only portable implementations
thereof, so, simple, quick and easy since it's really only my secondary screen
reader - but, yes, have all the respect in the world for it...<smile>
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
----- Original Message -----
From: Boshoff, Deon (GP Health)
To: blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:47 AM
Subject: [blindza] Re: Dumb question relating to recorded audio
tutorials/walkthroughs TTS speed
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So, here's another dum question for you; why don't you use Eloquence
with NVDA? And yes, 40 with NVDA is fine, while 40 percent with Jaws is also
fine with most people. I have done this before, and at even higher speeds,
everybody liked it.
Deon [G. Boshoff, BA[Stell]UDC[Potch]
WESKOPPIES HOSPITAL
Tel: 0123199735
Mobile: 0829699571
Fax: 0123277076
Bleeper: 0123199820, code 0002
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Deon.boshoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Deon.boshoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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-----Original Message-----
From: blindza-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blindza-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dewald van Deventer
Sent: 15 February 2012 04:45 PM
To: blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blindza] Re: Dumb question relating to recorded audio
tutorials/walkthroughs TTS speed
Hi Jacob. I think between Voice rate of about 68 "25 percent" and
about 73 "30 percent". would be the best.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jacob Kruger
To: NAPSA Blind ; BlindZA
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 3:51 PM
Subject: [blindza] Dumb question relating to recorded audio
tutorials/walkthroughs TTS speed
Just wondering, if I record some or other audio
tutorial/walkthrough, including my screen reader's output, what would a
good/suitable/average TTS voice speed be - for example, I myself keep jaws set
to it's speed of roundabout 105, and NVDA to like 40, since it's my sort of
secondary screen reader, and I'm not as used to hearing the eSpeak synthesizer.
On the other hand, I myself get told I talk too fast when it
comes to explaining technical information, etc. to various people, but anyway...
What it comes down to is just wondering, for something
like/similar to a tutorial/demonstrative podcast, etc., what type of speed do
you guys reckon it would be best to stick to, and I suppose, the speed actually
comes down to something like words per minute/second - and just tested it and
seems like NVDA is running roundabout 8 words per second at the moment, but
anyway...
Thoughts?
This is all partly related to why I have been looking into
sorting out recording PC output, and then mixing it with spoken audio as well,
but will leave it at that for now...<smile>
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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