[nvda] Re: Just A Comment of Information

I hear you. I've tried over and over, with varying voices, but there's just 
something about eSpeak that my brain still can't get used to. I wish I could 
as its usability is probably the best of the legal free synths I've found 
yet, and there are so many voice variants now for it. Maybe in time though I 
am hoping that Open Mary improves more with time. It's already promising in 
its early stages. smile

Travis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chela Robles" <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 7:00 PM
Subject: [nvda] Re: Just A Comment of Information


To his or her own synth prefference I say!
Smiles!

On 2/8/12, Bill Cox <waywardgeek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I agree eSpeak is a great synth to get used to.  My main issue with it
> was difficulty speeding it up fast enough.  It's the flip side of the
> simplicity of adding new languages to eSpeak.  The system is elegant
> and simple, which is why it has more voices in more languages than any
> other synth.  However, that simplicity leads to non-human transitions
> between phonemes, and these sudden transitions make speeding the
> speech up as a post process essentially a lost cause, at least if you
> want low distortion.  In addition, the epoch based inner loop in
> eSpeak makes it hard to speed up smoothly with internal algorithms the
> way Eloquence does.  When you go from 3 to 2 pitch periods on a
> phoneme, it's a big change.  So, I'm using Mary TTS with the
> cmu-rms-hsmm voice.  I love it at 4X speed, though the TTS synth is
> laggy and still unstable.
>
> Bill
>
> On 2/8/12, Benjamin D. Moser <moser757@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> That's great.
>>
>> I just want to say in all of this that Espeak is worth getting used to.
>> Fast, small, and although robotic, concise.
>>
>> Ben Moser
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Feb 8, 2012, at 7:55 AM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I agree that we need to be working on the legal open source synths
>>> like Mary TTS, which is why I'm supporting it with SpeechHub.  I
>>> personally feel the copyright needs of a company that refuses to
>>> legally sell a synth to a blind individual should not override the
>>> needs of that blind person.  I used voxin legally for a couple of
>>> years in Linux, and when I switched to Windows I felt unable to live
>>> without the Eloquence voice, yet I used NVDA, so I admit I found an
>>> illegal copy for a while.  However, I tried to support the effort to
>>> make Eloquence legally available for NVDA, but Nuance has not been
>>> willing to work with the NVDA developers.  I put very many hours into
>>> making Mary TTS work well enough or me to use, including even building
>>> the second male voice listed with the deep tones, because I needed a
>>> non-Eloquence voice I could listen to at high speed comfortably.
>>> Since Thanksgiving, I no longer use Eloquence, and instead rely on the
>>> Mary TTS voice.  However, I am not blind, and not even yet legally
>>> blind.  I even still drive during the day.  I have Stargartd's
>>> Disease, and my central vision is slowly fading, but I'm still able to
>>> deal with the low performance of Mary TTS, and it's occasional crashes
>>> far better than a blind person who must have stable responsive speech.
>>> So, I'm an early and enthusiastic early adopter of Mary TTS.  I do
>>> not expect many blind people to follow me early on in dropping
>>> Eloquence, but long term I hope that Mary TTS will be a solid
>>> alternative.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> On 2/8/12, shaun everiss <sm.everiss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> I have long since stopped caring for the companies and their software.
>>>> I legally use it on my phone.
>>>> There are better synths than it to use on my pc.
>>>> At any rate you can't access all of its voices anyway.
>>>> And to be honest we should really be concentrating on legal options
>>>> like the new speech hub, as it has potentual.
>>>> At 10:48 p.m. 7/02/2012 +0000, you wrote:
>>>>> i THINK IT IS DIRTY OF ANYONE TO DEAL WITH A KNOWN PIRATE. i'VE BEEN
>>>>> TO THE SIGHT, AND i KNOW THAT IT HAS THE ILLEGAL SYNTH THERE.
>>>>>
>>>>> i AM WITH ANYONE WHO HAS IS AGRAVATED WITH THE COMPANYS THAT WILL
>>>>> NOT GIVE THE nvda PROJECT THE TIME OF DAY, OR JUST LEAD US AROUND BY
>>>>> THE NOSE. uLTIMATELY, THOUGH, THEY HAVE CHOSEN TO BEHAVE RUDELY, AND
>>>>> THAT GIVES US  NO RIGHT TO STEAL THEIR SOFTWARE. eNOUGH OF US KNOW,
>>>>> AND CAN SEE THAT THIS DROP BOX ACCOUNT HAS THAT SYNTH AVAILABLE ON
>>>>> IT, WE SHOULD NOT PLAY IGNORANT. jUST IN THE PAST FEW DAYS THERE WAS
>>>>> A THREAD ABOUT MAKING THAT THING WORK WITH nvda. tHIS IS ALLOWING
>>>>> FOR CONFUSION IN MY OPINION.
>>>>>
>>>>> sORRY FOR THE RANT, BUT i JUST FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT SUCH THINGS, AND
>>>>> DON'T WANT nvda TO SUFFER IN ANY WAY FROM IT, WHETHER IT BE LEGAL,
>>>>> OR USERS THAT WALK AWAY CONFUSED.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 07/02/12 11:21, Kevin Cussick wrote:
>>>>>> Well it's his drop box and I don't see what it has to do with me or
>>>>>> you or anyone else he is not talking about on the list so what is the
>>>>>> problem?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If someone wants that synth they will have it one way or another
>>>>>> the only way to stop it is if the devs make nvda just not work with
>>>>>> it under any circumstances.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 07/02/2012 07:00, David Tanner wrote:
>>>>>>> It has come to my attention that the synth folder in the NVDA 
>>>>>>> Dropbox
>>>>>>> contains the necessary files to install the unmentionable synth.
>>>>>>> I am wondering if that is appropriate???
>>>>>
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>> Come talk with other NVDA users on irc.blufudge.net #NVDA
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> Come talk with other NVDA users on irc.blufudge.net #NVDA
> Your continued donations help keep NVDA development going strong. Donate 
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