again, see open mary. making concatinative synthesizers is very very time consuming difficult and involves multiple people and engineers. and how many folks have good sound proof sound and recording studios in their houses for recording such concatinative voices?
On 9/28/2014 2:44 AM, Devin wrote:
And, if nv speech player gains all the languages of eSpeak, and the concatenation I spoke of in another message comes true, I'm sure all the dialects and sublanguages of Hindi will be made too. Sent from my iPadOn Sep 28, 2014, at 12:23 AM, Bhavya shah <bhavya.shah125@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi, Yes, but here in India, everyone uses JAWS (crack) and no one uses NVDA. This is purely because most people don't know that different speech synthesizers can be installed in NVDA and there are various variants of ESpeak, which makes ESpeak extremely pleasant. This is why JAWS is much more widely used and NVDA is not, at least with respect to India. Only if the default synth/voice/variant is natural and pleasant will more and more people begin using NVDA. These are my thoughts/opinions.On 9/28/14, Him Prasad Gautam <drishtibachak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: hi, Better to understand it as fashion. In winter you wear warm clothes but there are many varieties. Personally speaking, I do not see any fruitfulness on focusing too much on tts only. It is just understand the text what has appeared at the screen i.e an alternate of vision. What it must serve is: 1. no unpleasant to ear. 2. Clear pronunciation sufficient to understand the exact character/word/phrase. 3 Adjustability in rate/tonal quality. That is all. No need to talk too much only about this. We use tts not listen anything but just know the text at the screen as an alternate of eye.On 9/28/14, Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: yes I tried them. so far m7 is the best but speech player is much better. better than all espeak variants I think.On 9/27/2014 7:58 PM, Bhavya shah wrote: Hi, An alternative to the illegal Eloquence and NV Speech Player, you can test different variants of ESpeak. Have you tried the Steph variant, Steph_test 1 variant and Steph 3 variant? All three are extremely pleasant variants of ESpeak. A variant simply changes the voice of ESpeak, retaining the excellent pronunciations and multi linguality of ESpeak. If you don't have the three variants I said, then I would be willing to post them here. I too can't understand Speech Player at fast speeds.On 9/28/14, Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: but espeak's consonant r is correct. I'm not sure what accent speech player has. but I can't use it at fast speeds right now. I am just forced to switch back to illegal eloquence for the time being. sorry guys can't help it. speech player isn't quite there. its close so very very very close! not quite there yet though.On 9/27/2014 7:21 PM, Bhavya shah wrote: The consonant 'r' is is somewhat wrong as well. Also, is Speech Player supposed to speak American English or British English or another dialect of English? It would be nice if the devs could try improving Speech Player a bit.On 9/28/14, Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi I did some thinking and came up with the following conclusions. Our tts engines what we like and don't like about them can be compared to fonts for reading and writing or typing for the sighted. Professionals like college professors like certain fonts and indeed require them for written papers. While others like and may require other fonts when writing newspapers and such things. So our tts engines are like fonts. Just as someone may require or want you to write your paper with the courier new font, someone else may want it in times new roman font. And just like some like eloquence, others like espeak. I did an experiment with natural voices such as vocalizer and such. they don't perform well at high speeds such as if you try using it at rate 100 stuff gets cut off. ESpeak and eloquence are the clearest at rates like 60 for eloquence and espeak's rate of 30 with rate boost. NV speech player would be clearer if consonant phonemes such as t, sh, and ch were more pronounced I think especially ch. but speech player is the closest to eloquence I've ever seen in an open source speech engine. and if it merged into espeak it could have the sound of eloquence with espeak's high fast fast speaking rate and clear pronunciation! so please get nv speech player out as soon as you can please! Josh ---------------------------------------------------------------- NVDA add-ons Central: A list for discussing NVDA add-ons To post a message, send an email to nvda-addons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. To unsubscribe, send an email with the subject line of "unsubscribe" (without quotes) to nvda-addons-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. If you have questions for list moderators, please send a message to nvda-addons-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. 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