Re: Is there a program that will help you create Sapi5 voices?

  • From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:42:23 +0300

Well, not exactly. It happends so if the other sinthesizers are made incorrectly (like ESpeak) (if this is the problem), or because Windows is stupid.
I used the SAPI Eloquence from Window Eyes in Narrator and it works very well that way.
I didn't install Window Eyes, but only the Eloquence sinthesizer from Window Eyes package. 

Octavian
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherhallsworth71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: Is there a program that will help you create Sapi5 voices?
If you use the Windows XP Narrator, Microsoft Sam will be used regardless of your default SAPI synthesizer. I believe this limitation has been removed in 
Vista, but can't say on that one. Hope that helps.
Chris Hallsworth
BrailleNote mPower user
Website: www.chrishallsworth.co.nr
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <lras@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:55 PM
Subject: RE: Is there a program that will help you create Sapi5 voices?
The Eloquence that comes with JAWS and the ViaVoice that comes with Kurzweil 
do not use SAPI 4 or 5.  The Eloquence that comes with Window-Eyes is SAPI
4, and I have heard that there never was an Eloquence for SAPI 5. I had no 
trouble getting Window-Eyes to select and use Espeak from its list of SAPI
synthesizers. So you may have been running into a limitation of JAWS or of the way SAPI synthesizers are enumerated. And the Control Panel Speech.cpl applet can set a default SAPI 5 synthesizer, which I think affects Narrator 
as well as other programs.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls


-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-
bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Octavian Rasnita
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 1:39 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Is there a program that will help you create Sapi5 voices?

Does anyone know what interface is used by Eloquence?

It is not SAPI 4 nor 5, and it works better than a SAPI voice.
The problem with the SAPI voices is that at a certain moment only a single 
SAPI5 voice can be active, and in order to change the voice we need to go
into Control Panel/Speech, and changing the active voice there doesn't
always work.
For example, I've tried to use ESpeak sinthesizer, and I couldn't make it
active but only by deleting all others voices from the Registry.
And this was a problem also because Narrator doesn't work without those MS 
made voices.

Does anyone know some books or tutorials for working with these things
under Windows? But of course, not MSDN, because it refers only to ways of
creating sinthesizers which are not used by any good company that creates
sinthesizers. Information about creating sinthesizers that work under
Symbian are also welcome.


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