[access-uk] Re: Iona voices
- From: "ANDY COLLINS" <Andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:56:42 +0100
Perhaps I'll spend a bit of time and see if I can get to grips with NVDA. Which
synths/voices are available? -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Beasley
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 11:58 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Iona voices
I don't know about other screenreaders, but NVDA has the option to have beeps
for capitals.
----- Original Message -----
From: john coley
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 11:39 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Iona voices
Hi Andy, yes, it's a great shame that they can't find a way of getting the
SAPI voices to support pitch. So many people have got used to pitch change
denoting capitals. I'm sure those creating these voices could find a way, it's
more, I suspect, that they aren't bothered enough to try. It's easy to spot
people using SAPI voices, as their capitalisation's out of the window.
On your point about Amy's diction she can't say T in a lot of cases
either. She says D. Another odd thing about the voices is not only the way they
say things, for example world war the second instead of world war 2, but also
seemingly made up words they come up with sometimes. I have the Goodmans digi
box, and the synth they've used for that can't say x or ex, as in X men or
Exfactor. I'd be interested to get from anyone with a Goodmans box who've
noticed these made up words to hear their guesses as to what the made up words
are.
John.
----- Original Message -----
From: ANDY COLLINS
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 10:55 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Iona voices
Hi John -
Shame that. Would it really have been so difficult to have included pitch
change with the Ivona voices, and why are there such strange anomalies such as
the way Amy yells the letter Y, and pushes some syllables so hard it sounds
like she's constipated! -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: john coley
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 11:29 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Iona voices
Hi Andy, none of those voices support pitch. The same goes for
Realspeak and the other human sounding SAPI voices. I've only come across one
vaguely human sounding synth that supports pitch, and that was SVox Pico for
use with NVDA.
John.
----- Original Message -----
From: ANDY COLLINS
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 6:03 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Iona voices
Hi all -
I'm using the Iona voices in demo mode for now, thinking about buying
a license. I'm not very impressed with Brian and Emma [uk voices] but Amy [uk]
is pretty reasonable, even though I don't like the way she pronounces certain
words.
I was trying to make changes in JAWS, so that she would speak capitol
letters in a higher pitch, the way I am use to under Eloquence, but no matter
how much I Play around with this setting, it makes no difference. All letters
are read in the same pitch, when reading character by character. The odd thing
however, is that when Amy comes across the letter y [case doesn't matter] she
seems to yell it out, and in a slightly raised pitch too, as if there is
something special about the letter y!
Anybody have similar experiences? -
Andy
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