Generally, the way pauses are handled is that if you want longer
pauses for the speech, you simply add extra punctuation. I.E. if
1 comma pauses for half a second, then two of them pauses for a
full second. I realize that NVDA isn't built this way, but most
dos screen readers were, and I believe speakup is also built this
way (the sonsole-based screen reader for linux). I don't know
about orca, since I've not experimented with such things uder
orca. Obviously, this only works when you have control over the
text being read by the synthesizer, and not stuff that is already
written, but it would be a nice start.
On 7/13/2018 11:41 AM, Sociohack AC
wrote:
Hahah, Hazel should definitely get an appearance fee.
Someone on reddit told me that in Voice Dream Reader you can
control the duration of the pauses after punctuation and
sentence break. It would be great to have similar feature for
NVDA. SAPI 5 voices do provide intonation pauses, but they also
provide pauses after command keys, which makes them slow for
general navigation. Maybe, we could have a feature enabling the
users to toggle between extended pauses and short pauses. For
general navigation short pauses will be great, like they are in
Espeak, and for reading long documents long pauses would be very
helpful, like they are in SAPI 5 voices.
Someone please introduce this feature. --
Regards,
Sociohack
