[nvda-addons] Fwd: RE: soft voice tts for NVDA
- From: Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: nvda-addons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 18:27:02 -0400
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Subject: RE: soft voice tts for NVDA
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 22:07:14 +0000
From: info <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: joshknnd1982@xxxxxxxxx
Hi Josh,
Thanks for the instructions, I can get the SoftVoice TTS engine to work.
Unfortunately, I cannot access certain functions which would tell me the
original licensee but I believe it was a company called Willow Pond. As far as
I know, they are no longer in business so I will have to try to find the
original contract to see if this use is authorized. I will also try to contact
the individual that wrote the NVDA interface to our TTS engine. My intent is
not to restrict access to our engine, just to make sure that whoever is
publishing software that uses it follows our licensing restrictions and
provides proper links back to us. The SoftVoice TTS engine is not in the
public domain or subject to GNU-type open licensing and we want to maintain
control over how it is distributed.
Regards,
Joseph
<br><br><br>------- Original Message -------
On 9/27/2014 3:17 PM Josh Kennedy wrote:<br>to make soft voice work, before
you switch to the tts engine, first go
<br>into the preferences and then the voice dialog box and uncheck automatic
<br>language switching and uncheck automatic dialect switching, hit ok, then
<br>save the configuration, then switch to soft voice, then it will work.
<br>
<br>Josh
<br>
<br>On 9/27/2014 12:20 AM, info wrote:
<br>> Hello Josh,
<br>> Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, NVDA doesn't seem to work when I
<br>> select the SoftVoice engine. I suspect that it's related to
<br>> differences in the API that the NVDA addon uses and the current
<br>> version of the TTS engine. I'll have to take a closer look at things
<br>> and maybe see if I can get in touch with whoever wrote the addon.
<br>>
<br>> Regards,
<br>> Joseph
<br>>
<br>>
<br>> <br><br><br>------- Original Message -------
<br>> On 9/25/2014 9:39 PM Josh Kennedy wrote:<br>Hi
<br>> <br>
<br>> <br>Here is the link for soft voice.
<br>> <br>
<br>> <br>you may have to rename it to softvoice.nvda-addon because some web
<br>> <br>browsers do not keep the file name extension of .nvda-addon and
<br>> instead <br>give it a .zip extension.
<br>> <br>
<br>> <br>http://jeff.vrnw.org/Add-Ons/softvoice.nvda-addon
<br>> <br>
<br>> <br>
<br>> <br>On 9/25/2014 5:00 PM, info wrote:
<br>> <br>> Hello Josh,
<br>> <br>> I am not aware of an NVDA interface for our TTS engine. If you
<br>> would <br>> please send me a link to that software then I will check
<br>> to see if <br>> this is an authorized use of the SoftVoice TTS engine
<br>> or, if not, how <br>> to legitimately provide our TTS engine to the
<br>> visually impaired <br>> community.
<br>> <br>>
<br>> <br>> Thanks,
<br>> <br>> Joseph
<br>> <br>>
<br>> <br>>
<br>> <br>> <br><br><br>------- Original Message -------
<br>> <br>> On 9/25/2014 2:18 PM Josh Kennedy wrote:<br>oh sorry. I meant
<br>> <br>> softvoice. are we allowed to use the softvoice addon <br>with
<br>> nvda <br>> that somebody made? or is this illegal?
<br>> <br>> <br>
<br>> <br>
<br>> <br>
<br>
<br>
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