Re: Using Neo Speech engine with Jaws

Hi,

Just as a reminder, if you have Kurzweil 1000, version 9 and up, you should 
already have  a couple of Neo Speech voices which you can use.

Michael

  

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Roden 
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 3:58 AM
  Subject: Re: Using Neo Speech engine with Jaws


  Hello!

  Where can I download 
  Neo Speech engine?



  Regards,

  Roden 

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: john coley 
    To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 5:52 PM
    Subject: Re: Using Neo Speech engine with Jaws


    Hi everybody, it would be interesting to know how successfully neospeech 
    voices work with Jaws. I use Scansoft realspeak Daniel, and it is without 
    exception the most human synthsized voice I've ever heard. There are a few 
    issues with it and jaws though, nothing's ever perfect, is it.
      The msin issues are those of capitalization, since daniel doesn't support 
    pitch change, and punctuation. There is also the issue of inappropriate 
    abbreviation. I think Daniel, and this may apply also to other voice synths 
    may contain their own set of rules, dictionary etc.
      I contacted Freedom Sciendific about the problem, since I was unsure how 
    much of the problem was due to the individual voice synth, and how much was 
    due to the way jaws used it. They blamed it solely on the individual voice 
    synth.
      I contacted tech support at nextup, who I bought the voice from, and they 
    blamed Jaws.
      It would be interesting to know if people have similar problems with 
other 
    sapi 5 voices.
                        John.

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: "Debbie Scales" <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 1:15 AM
    Subject: Re: Using Neo Speech engine with Jaws


    > Hey John, I think this is what the technical support notice does because 
    > you
    > download the file, Sapi5x.zip.  Hope this helps and saves you some time,
    > smile!
    > ----- Original Message ----- 
    > From: "john coley" <johncoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    > Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 7:51 PM
    > Subject: Re: Using Neo Speech engine with Jaws
    >
    >
    > Hi Michael, yes you can use your neospeech voices with jaws. They will
    > appear in the list of voices when you change your jaws synthesizer to 
    > sapi5.
    > You may notice though that the voices don't sound happy, they may sound
    > lispy and/or crackly. This is because Jaws needs to know the frequency of
    > the voices.
    >  To do this you need to get the cls id number for each of the voices, 
    > which
    > involves going into the registry, and then pasting that number into your
    > sapi5.ini file, which will be in your jaws folder.
    >  If you'd like I can send you step by step instructions how to do it, but
    > if you're not happy editing the registry you may need further help doing 
    > it.
    > If you want the instructions let me know offlist.
    >                     John.
    >
    >  ----- Original Message ----- 
    >  From: Michael G.
    >  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    >  Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 12:21 AM
    >  Subject: Using Neo Speech engine with Jaws
    >
    >
    >  Hi All,
    >
    >  My Kurzweil 1000 software already comes with the Neo Speech engines.  It
    > has both the male and female voices.  is there any way to get these to 
    > work
    > with Jaws?  I found the folder that contained the Neo Speech files but I'm
    > not really sure how to get Jaws to use these. .
    >
    >  Michael
    >
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