Hello,
My comments are below about this Add-on:
“We then packaged this as the nvSpeechPlayer NVDA add-on. It uses eSpeak for
English dictionary data, but otherwise, it is a separate synthesiser. It can
only speak English. Work on this has been abandoned, but some users still find
it useful/interesting, so it's probably worth keeping around.“
My view is only keep one version and remove the old version.
It is more confusing to people if you have Add-ons that are half developed and
under finished witch are not going to ever be completed!
The add-on is great though and thank you for your very hard work.
Thank you and kind regards.
Brendon Donohue.
From: nvda-addons-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:nvda-addons-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Teh
Sent: Thursday, 30 July 2015 8:50 AM
To: nvda-addons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [nvda-addons] Re: SpeechPlayerInEspeak
I'll try to clarify this rather confusing mess.
1. The nvSpeechPlayer engine is an implementation of the Klatt speech
synthesis algorithms. It also includes phoneme data for English.
2. We then packaged this as the nvSpeechPlayer NVDA add-on. It uses eSpeak
for English dictionary data, but otherwise, it is a separate synthesiser. It
can only speak English. Work on this has been abandoned, but some users still
find it useful/interesting, so it's probably worth keeping around.
3. Aside from only being able to speak English, the nvSpeechPlayer add-on
also had other problems, mostly related to lengths of sounds.
4. In order to benefit from eSpeak's length data, support for other
languages, etc., we tried another approach: the speechPlayerInEspeak add-on.
This integrates the nvSpeechPlayer synthesis engine into eSpeak itself,
replacing eSpeak's existing (and somewhat buggy) Klatt engine.
So, in short, these are two separate add-ons and probably do need two separate
pages unless we want to drop the nvSpeechPlayer add-on completely. In that
case, the speechPlayerInEspeak page should stay, not the nvSpeechPlayer page.
Also, much of the info on the nvSpeechPlayer page (from Implementation onwards)
isn't useful to users. IMO, there should just be a little bit of info and
interested people can go read the project page for more details.
So, the nvSpeechPlayer page needs to note that it is a separate synthesizer
that only speaks English, while the speechPlayerInEspeak page should note that
it integrates nvSpeechPlayer right into eSpeak.
Jamie
On 29/07/2015 3:27 PM, Joseph Lee wrote:
Hi,
For speech player, let's hear from Jamie about this add-on.
For duplicate Spanish page for Clip Contents Designer, I'll do as requested on
August 1st.
Cheers,
Joseph
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[mailto:nvda-addons-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Noelia
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 10:26 PM
To: nvda-addons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:nvda-addons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [nvda-addons] SpeechPlayerInEspeak
Hi, I suggest to include this add-on on August 1. There are two webpages about
SpeechPlayer in add-ons under development.
Also, it would be great if duplicate webpages could be removed, for instance
clipContentsDesigner spanish webpage. It was used for a great test, and no it's
not useful.
Thanks.
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