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. Community addons can be found here: http://addons.nvda-project.org
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