There is wide disagreement of what the best is.
it's a matter of preference and taste. it's like
asking what is the best frozen pizza. Do you like
older synthesizers such as Eloquence or do you like
newer ones, with more human sounding voices but slower
responsiveness and, in my opinion, significantly
degraded speech accuracy in most of them? I don't
recall the names of any of the newer ones because I
dislike most of them and don't use them. There are a
lot of synthesizers you can try or get information
about on the NVDA page devoted to this topic:
Also, on this page, the Eloquence add on that
offers other voices as well is discussed. There is a
SAPI five Eloquence available for sale which is far
superior, if you are interested in Eloquence. Others
can tell you more about it if you are interested. And
a lot of voices available for purchase have demos.
I'll add that some people use a responsive voice
for work, such as word processing and other tasks, but
use one of the newer more natural voices for
listening, such as when reading a book.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 6:59 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Best Synthesizer
Thanks I’m confused. My question was what is the best?
And I believe there is always a better maybe someone
else has an opinion
> On May 24, 2018, at 2:54 PM, Antony Stone <
antony.stone@...>
wrote:
>
> SAPI is not a speech engine. It's a definition of
a protocol enabling speech
> applications (synthesis or recognition) to
interface to other applications
> (such as a browser).
>
> Some synthesisers can only communicate with other
applications via SAPI, some
> can do SAPI plus other protocols, some don't do
SAPI at all.
>
> As Gene said, whether a synthesiser communicates
using SAPI says nothing at
> all about the quality of its voices.
>
> Also, to add another answer to the original
question "what is the best
> sounding synthesizer that NVDA supports?", I would
say it's the one you like
> best and get on with best. That may not be the
same as what someone else
> likes. These things are a very personal choice.
>
>
> Antony.
>
>> On Thursday 24 May 2018 at 13:47:29, Jaffar
Sidek wrote:
>>
>> Also, Sapi is a speech engine native to
windows. The beauty and
>> flexibility of NVDA is that it allows for
installation of Non-windows
>> synthesizer voices. Cheers!
>>
>>> On 5/24/2018 7:26 PM, Gene wrote:
>>> It should be pointed out that SAPI is a way
that voices communicate
>>> with the computer. it has nothing to do
with the kind of voice in
>>> terms of its speech or general quality.
sometimes, a synthesizer may
>>> have a SAPI version and a version that
isn't SAPI. There is no reason
>>> to use or not to use a voice because it is
SAPI.
>>> Gene
>>>
>>> *From:* Chris via Groups.Io <
mailto:chrismedley@...>
>>> *Sent:* Thursday, May 24, 2018 6:02 AM
>>> *To:*
nvda@nvda.groups.io <
mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io>
>>> *Subject:* Re: [nvda] Best Synthesizer
>>>
>>> There is nothing better than sapi voices
>>>
>>> Don’t waste your time or money on anything
else. Have a nice day now 😃
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