[nvda] Re: Comma and Full Stop Pauses?

I was just checking it out a bit, and the pause is pretty minimal, as it should be I think for the".. The coma seems about right also, but of course it is a matter of taste, in a perfect world you could adjust how a synth ap reacts to each punctuation=tion symbol, but.... With espeak one can adjust the inflection, which should help your friend to get a better listen. ]the raising and lowering of tone is the factor that controls how a reading is understood more than length of pauses with most synth boxes/aps I know of. 
Burt
P.s.-other voices, and other synth engines may be the ticket/I still have not found exactly what I want for NVDA, but espeak's best voices are at least quite understandable, and it is a very light weight ap conpared to the more life like alt. and espeak is even smaller than other engines that sound much worse to me. 
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On 11/3/2009 7:45 café,  brian gafff (Line One) wrote:

Do you mean with Espeak or a different synth, and is this in say all
situations? I've never thought the pauses were perticularly weird, but
then it depends on the speed its reading at I imagine.

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Melissa Seims"
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Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:28 PM
Subject: [nvda] Comma and Full Stop Pauses?


Hello,

I have a query on behalf of friend about NVDA.

I recently installed it on his machine and he is very happy with it but
he find that it it does not pause when a full stop is reached and he
thinks that the pause given for a comma may is a bit too long. He
wonderes if somehow it has things the wrong way round as far as commas
and full stops are concerned. Does anyone else have this problem and if
so is there a fix?

Many thanks.

Regards,
Melissa

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