Re: Tips for speed reading /listening with screen readers
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George McCoy <slr1bpz@...>
Greetings,
Unfortunately, none of the espeak variants that come with nvda are
optimized for rapid speech. Some time ago, a friend of mine and I
developed one just for that purpose. We called it bullet. We did not
share it with anyone because it served our purposes and we did not have the time
to beta test it on a wide variety of systems or with languages other than
english.
We live in the U.S. We use the english (America) voice. We tested it
with all of the english voices.
If you are an english speaker and you can stand the english (america)
voice, we would be willing to share our Bullet epeak variant with you.
I usually run at 40% with rate boost checked. I set pitch to 40 and
inflection to 75.
I can’t give you an estimate on words per minute but it is several
hundred.
I have tested it up to 70% with rate boost checked and it doesn’t seem to
distort.
I listen with headphones or a set of wired speakers with a separate woofer
but the variant sounds good on my laptop speakers as well.
Let me know if you would like to try it out.
George
From: Sociohack AC
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 2:24 AM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Tips for speed reading /listening with screen
readers You
get used to it. Words don't run into each other, you can recognize them as you
do at slower speeds. Default speeds are too slow and inefficient for navigating
around. You can easily go beyond default speeds, how high, that is a question.
And, perhaps depends from person to person. By flutter I mean, a kind of shiver in the voice or the voice getting more robotic than usual. In E-speak it occurs at 100% and at alll boost mode rates. It is still comprehensible, just annoying. -- Regards, Sociohack
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