Please respond to Chris off-list. Chris, you should
probably also contact Acapela directly. This is more of an issue with their
synth and your syntax than with the NVDA screen reader. No further admin
intervention will occur unless this thread gets out of hand. Also, please
endeavor to moderate your language on this list as we do have a wide variety
of members, and we are the representatives of the great NVDA screen reader. If
you have any questions, please submit them to the owner address.
Thanks.
http://www.acapela-nvda.com/blog/2017/01/12/is-your-acapela-voice-laughing-or-crying-with-nvda/
OK, so
here's the deal.
I have NVDA
2016.4 on Windows 10 Home 64 Bit.
I'm trying
whilst pulling my dang hair out over here to figure out, excuse my language,
why in the bloody hell! this isn't working.
Here's what
I've done up to this point.
1. Press
Windows key+R to open the run dialog.
2. Typed c:
and pressed enter.
3. Navigated
to Program Files X86, and pressed enter on the NVDA folder.
4. Navigated
to builtin.dic
5. Pressed
CTRL+C to copy it to the clipboard
6. Navigated
to my Documents folder
7. Pressed
CTRL+V to paste the file so I'd have a backup copy.
8. Went back
to the NVDA directory, and pressed enter to open Builtin.dic
9. Found the
line about breaking words that end with numbers. This line, in itself was
commented, but the line referenced in the link above right below it
wasn't.
10. Typed a
number sign, (#) right at the very beginning of the line directly after the
break line. I then put a space after the number sign.
So, here is
what my entire file looks like. Note that to seperate the file's content from
the rest of the file, I have put the content between two lines of three
hyphens. The hyphens are not in the file. They are only being used as a
container placeholder to show you all where the content begins and ends, so,
beware.
---
#break up
words that use a capital letter to denote another
word
([a-z])([A-Z]) \1 \2 1 1
#Break away a word starting
with a capital from a fully uppercase word
([A-Z])([A-Z][a-z]) \1
\2 1 1
#Break words that have numbers at the end
#
((?:(?=\D)\w)+)(\d+) \1 \2 1 1
---
11. Pressed
CTRL+S to save. Was presented with a save as dialog. Left the file name alone,
tabbed to the save button, pressed enter, said yes to replace, then got an
error access denied. Yes. I am logged on as an administrator.
12. Closed
this Notepad window with the file, went to my Documents folder, found the
file, editted it in Notepad to read as the following:
---
#break up
words that use a capital letter to denote another
word
([a-z])([A-Z]) \1 \2 1 1
#Break away a word starting
with a capital from a fully uppercase word
([A-Z])([A-Z][a-z]) \1
\2 1 1
#Break words that have numbers at the end
#
((?:(?=\D)\w)+)(\d+) \1 \2 1 1
---
Then pressed
CTRL+S to save. This worked as far as saving the file.
13. I then
copied this file over to the c:\Program Files X86\NVDA directory, replacing
the file that was already there with the newly modified version. I was asked
if I wanted to use automatic elevated priveledges to complete this task, and I
said OK. The file was copied over successfully.
14. I
restarted NVDA.
15. I
pressed NVDA+CTRL+S to select synthesizer, and went to Accappella TTS. ON my
end this loaded the Ella voice, which is fine, as she's exactly who I
want to do this with.
15. I opened
a blank file in Notepad, and in it, I typed:
#LAUGH01#
I tried this
all the way up to 05, and it did absolutely no good. All she says is, number
laugh 0 1 number.
I tried
putting a space after this line of text, no good. I even tried a carriage
return, but that didn't work either. No other text was on the same line. The
whole document was totally empty except for this.
16. I
tried
#COUGH05#
I wanted to
make her cough as hard as she could, so I could really really hear it in case
it was suttle. That didn't work. All I heard was number cough 05
number.
17. I also
tried with
#CRY05#
No
good.
I dono what
on earth I did wrong!
I know some
voices don't have all the sounds nor exclamations recorded, but unless I read
it wrong, it looks like Ella should have all the above sounds included. I
should note that the syntax of how I am writing these things in Notepad on a
line all by themselves is: number sign, then in all caps, the sound name, like
cough, for example, c o u g h, then no space after the letter h, 05, then
another number sign.
I've tried
putting a space after the first number sign before the letter C in cough. No
good. I tried putting a space after the 5 in cough05, no good. I've put a
space before the numbers 05, no good. I put a space on both sides, before the
C, and after the 5 both. No good. I even did a space before the C, after the
H, and after the 5 all 3. No good. Basically, long story short, I tried every
combination under the fortunate sun!
I'm totally
sure the voices are activated, and these voices are on version 1.49. I've
tried all 5 levels of laugh, cough, cry, sneeze, breath, and even have tried
CAR REVVING. I even tried all 5 of AARGH. No good.
Have tried
with Ella, Will, Will Happy, Rosey, Amilio, Josh, and I think even Heather. I
also tried with Mika.
I'm totally
at a loss! I even did the sloppy work around by adding the actual number sign
symbol to the temporary dictionary, and replacing with nothing more than a
space character, then, setting the radio button cluster to Anywhere. That
didn't do it either. That got rid of it saying number, but now, all I get is
Cry05
and that's
it. No boo hoo hoo, no ha ha ha, no aaaaaaaaarg! Nothing.
I have some
txt files of things I've written, and I really, really, really! would like to
get these things working, as I think it would make reading the files really
awesome, if I could get those codes to work.
If anyone's
gotten this to work, then tell me step by step what to do. I have a backup
copy of NVDA that I can revert back to if you'd like me to just start over
totally fresh from before I ever started screwing with this, this way we're at
ground square 1.
The more
specific keystroke by keystroke you can be at telling me how to do this, the
better. Please, be as specific as you can be. Trust me. The extral verbiage
will not drive me crazy. Right now, I think I'm gonna need it.
Again,
Windows 10 Home 64 bit, Accappella TTS for NVDA V 1.49, and NVDA 2016.4
official release.
Thank you
profusely!
Chris.
