Speaking as someone who switches between the two regularly, the best solution is to use the switch synthe addon, or any other one that allows you to switch, and have English and Japanese as your set up. It’s not as good as automatic language switching, but switchin with one keystroke is miles better than having to switch manually every time, and I can still be pretty productive in both languages. As for the 1 core voices,
make sure the text to speech packages are actually being downloaded. If they are, I’m not sure why they aren’t showing up. Best of luck.On Jul 26, 2022, at 10:31 AM, Shawn via groups.io < kb7clx@...> wrote:
You can't adjust inflection with one core voices either.
Shawn Klein
On 7/26/2022 12:20 PM, Sharni-Lee Ward
wrote:
If I use Sapi5, doesn't that mean I can't adjust inflection? I
don't like that idea very much...
On 27/07/2022 1:40 am, Gene wrote:
I
would suggest getting the SAPI5 Eloquence version, not the
add-on. You can use the SAPI5 version with any screen-reader
that supports SAPI5 and you don't have to worry about which
version of NVDA you use it with. NVDA supports SAPI5 regardless
of version.
You can try a demo to see if it does what you want. If no one
gives information soon about where to get a demo, I'll check.
Gene
On 7/26/2022 10:33 AM, Sharni-Lee
Ward wrote:
Actually, while I'm thinking about it, how much is
the Eloquence addon? And is it a one-time payment? I know
Jaws is subscription-based now (at least, I think that's
what the deal is, and last I heard you had to pay for new
updates, which I always thought was a d*ck move), but is the
Eloquence addon by itself a one-time payment? If so, I may
consider investing in it for circumstances such as this.
On 25/07/2022 7:10 am, Sharni-Lee
Ward wrote:
Since Eloquence
is paid and I don't like it anyways, that's not an option
for me. I dunno how, if at all, those packs would help, and
I don't want to change synths. Anything without inflection
settings (including most paid synths) sounds woeful to my
discerning ears.
On 25/07/2022 6:30 am, Shawn via groups.io wrote:
The question is did you switch
ESpeak's language to Japanese. With some synths, they just
won't work with Japanese or some other foreign alphabets
at all unless you add language packs in Windows. I just
opened a Japanese Wikipedia page with the following
results. Japanese Eloquence read it in Japanese. ESpeak
Japanese read Japanese letter this, Chinese letter that.
You may want to check out this page about installing
language packs in Windows, or find a synth that will work
without them.
https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fwindows%2Flanguage-packs-for-windows-a5094319-a92d-18de-5b53-1cfc697cfca8&data=05%7C01%7C%7Ce594a98c5f5649b9b50908da6db8ff1a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637942938588515646%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wI22F3s6GmKeUfXsNNEB9S%2FA9AB83M%2BZLcgwV3FZtuQ%3D&reserved=0
Shawn Klein
On 7/24/2022 12:58 PM, Sharni-Lee Ward wrote:
The New Releases page said that
Japanese was added to Espeak as well as the packaged
Braille Tables. I want to learn Japanese (I started
learning in school, then left school, and that was a
good fifteen years ago now), and just found out the
browser version of Duolingo is accessible with NVDA.
However, I've checked with a couple things (I'm a part
of a number of anime fandoms), and NVDA doesn't switch
to Japanese when reading passages, instead continuing to
say "Japanese-letter" several times, or if I'm scrolling
over it, "Japanese-letter" plus several numbers that I
suppose are it's unicode designation? But anyways, it is
not reflecting the addition of the language bank in
Espeak NG. And I know the ProTalker addon has not been
compatible for years, though even if it were, there were
some weird pronunciation issues with even that.
Is there something I am missing here?
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