Re: DECtalk Add-on for NVDA
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Gene
It appears it is no longer being sold. You canstill use system access
to go but I don’t know if you can buy voices for it and it doesn’t include
Dectalk as a freely available voice.
They used to not want you to use System Access to Go
unless you were unable to use your own screen-reader but these days, since they
aren’t in the screen-reader business, they may not care.
Gene -----Original Message-----
From: Pamela Dominguez
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] DECtalk Add-on for NVDA I had a trial of System Access, and I discovered it had dectalk access 32
in it. It actually sounded better than the one in Window eyes. But
my trial ran out, and I heard they were no longer selling it. Otherwise, I
would have paid to reinstate it again. Does this mean I still can, and
how? Pam.
However, Eloquence is easier to understand at fast speech rates. I
don’t have to stop and go back to check a word I didn’t understand hardly ever
at a high rate, about 350 or 400 words per minute. With Dectalk, I have to
check more often. Eloquence pronounces more words correctly without a
speech dictionary. And, while Eloquence doesn’t have as pleasant sounding
a voice, the voice sounds better as you increase reading spdeed. So each
synthesizer has advantages and disadvantages. For listening to reading at
a slower speed, for reading something like a novel in a more relaxed manner, I
prefer DecTalk. For fast reading, I prefer Eloquence.
I don’t know if you can still by DecTalk to use with System Access to
go. System Access To Go is still around but I don’t know if you can still
buy synthesizers to use with it.
Gene -----Original Message-----
From: Pamela Dominguez
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2021 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] decktalk addon for nvda Yes, so do I. Much much more! For one thing, eloquence doesn’t
know how to pitch its voice. If you have a long sentence without commas or
other punctuation, it will wind down, as if it has a dead battery. Then,
when it encounters the next mark, it sort of takes a breath, and the voice goes
back up to the top. That is only one thing I don’t like about
eloquence. Pam.
David Grossgan used to have a website that have the Dectalk add-ons
include Access 32. But, that add-on was out of support eversince NVDA 2019.3.
Personally, I like Dectalk more than EloquencePersonal
preference
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