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From: "Gene" <gsasner@...>
To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io>
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] espeak


As I recall, the site accepts presentations from a wide variety of people. it may not be practical for the site to influence how presenters do this, although I suppose they could place something on their site or send e-mails to people who have made presentations in the past regarding what they might do in future. Whhen I do presentations, although I leave my synthesizer at a fast speed, I repeat anything the synthesizer says that I think is important for the listener to be sure is understood. That is my compromise. I really dislike listening to slow speech and this allows the synthesizer to be fast but the listener will know what was said that is necessary.

Gene
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From: Lino Morales
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 1:33 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] espeak


I agree with you Bryan. When you demos of any type using speech weither
its a podcast etc the no.1 rule should be to slow down your synth you
use. I've emailed the good people of Cool Blind Tech with a friendly
post suggesting them to do this. They never responded.


On 4/30/2016 4:45 AM, Brian's Mail list account wrote:

Yes but many beginners have issues. If even I listen to some of the
demos on cool blind tech and other sites, I find more often than not
that the user has the speed turned up far too high to be
understandable unless they are using the exact same voice as you are.
Often I'd prefer say, the speech platform Hazel voice to read
documents to me, but the irritating number of words it needs to have
in its dictionary to sound right is quite a problem, indeed in nvda
and other software, that and the Microsoft sapi voices do have an
annoying tendency to expand inappropriate abbreviations into the US
standard not the UK ones.
Brian

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete" <emac00@...>
To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io>
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] espeak

hi
Espeak is probably the best open source synthesizer available!
Definitely a keeper!
Just my preference, I don't care for the "natural" sounding
synthesizers. It seems like it takes them way to long to say the
same thing espeak can say in a few seconds.
Thanks!
Pete


On 4/20/2016 6:57 PM, Arlene wrote:

I'll third that. don’t get rid of E Speak. It's very responsive.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rosemarie Chavarria [mailto:knitqueen2007@...]
Sent: April-20-16 8:55 AM
To: nvda@groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] espeak

I second that. Don't get rid of e-speak. It's fast and responsive.



-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Kennedy [mailto:joshknnd1982@...]
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 6:30 AM
To: nvda@groups.io
Subject: [nvda] espeak

no don't get rid of espeak! keep espeak but 1. improve edward and 2.
make edward the default voice and 3. let the edward ;voice be
tweaked to make more klatt variants and 4. let edward voice have all
pronunciation abilities of non-klatt espeak.

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