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Re: I take it there have been no improvements to the flawed espeak ng in 2017.4?

Oh, yeah, I forgot the American Espeak is godawful. I always use the default English voice, as I am Australian and it is the closest to my own accent I can get, while also not being painful to listen

By Sharni-Lee Ward · #37655 ·

Re: I take it there have been no improvements to the flawed espeak ng in 2017.4?

I updated to 2018.1, and the performance improvement has encouraged me to stick to it. And just so you know, I use Windows 7. I knew I'd have to update eventually, as I know the world would move on to

By Sharni-Lee Ward · #37654 ·

Re: I take it there have been no improvements to the flawed espeak ng in 2017.4?

You don’t know how the Eloquence synthesizer would work with the dictionary you already have. Your generalization about other synthesizers is just that, a generalization. You don't know if it

By Gene · #37653 ·

Re: I take it there have been no improvements to the flawed espeak ng in 2017.4?

Actually ms sam is good in the right situation, I had a scifi drama from one of the testings I had done where sam was an enginiering robot, he actually is quite human sounding but not much good for

By Shaun Everiss · #37652 ·

Re: I take it there have been no improvements to the flawed espeak ng in 2017.4?

That was a good one, Lino. I've tried the e-speak voices and the only one I really like is Max. Linda sounds like she just came out of a tin can. Rosemarie

By Rosemarie Chavarria · #37651 ·

Re: I take it there have been no improvements to the flawed espeak ng in 2017.4?

Hi all, This thread is about certain regressions and mispronunciations introduced inadvertently in recent versions of ESpeak-NG resultant of some fixes and patches correcting the pronunciation of

By Bhavya shah · #37650 ·

Re: I take it there have been no improvements to the flawed espeak ng in 2017.4?

I agree completely, no matter how much users mess with voice files, eSpeak will always be a British synth that will be discomfort for new screen reader and NVDA users. Now, we have the One-core

By Devin Prater · #37649 ·

Re: I take it there have been no improvements to the flawed espeak ng in 2017.4?

The add on you were sent is the illegal add on which uses the same inferior implementation as JAWS does. I don't use it but I've heard it. Gene

By Gene · #37648 ·

Re: I take it there have been no improvements to the flawed espeak ng in 2017.4?

Rob you de man! You understand. My wife’s ears aren’t attached to my brain obvsly, but you being said type of person like her you understand. I don’t. So David and Alex on my iPod will live

By Lino Morales <linomorales001@...> · #37647 ·

Re: I take it there have been no improvements to the flawed espeak ng in 2017.4?

I used to like my Artic card with the Sonix TTS. In a way, eSpeak sounds sort of like that to me. Some folks still miss the Keynote Gold voice. I would call it the Keynote lead voice. But it is

By Ervin, Glenn · #37646 ·

Re: I take it there have been no improvements to the flawed espeak ng in 2017.4?

My gosh! You are as bad as Zara on here. I refuse to use NVDA 2018.1 and I want to live on WIN XP forever. So who’s the narrow minded one here? Neener neener. Lino Morales

By Lino Morales <linomorales001@...> · #37645 ·

Re: I take it there have been no improvements to the flawed espeak ng in 2017.4?

I install NVDA for folks who are new to vision loss, and screenreaders. I always excuse eSpeak right away, and install the SAPI engine. Later when and if they get more proficient with the computer, I

By Ervin, Glenn · #37644 ·

Re: I take it there have been no improvements to the flawed espeak ng in 2017.4?

Lino Morales <linomorales001@...> wrote: I couldn't agree more with this. I, too, am blind with a severe--and progressive--hearing loss. To me, e squeak has always sounded like a guy with a

By Rob Hudson <rob_hudson_3182@...> · #37643 ·

Re: I take it there have been no improvements to the flawed espeak ng in 2017.4?

That is your opinion and you're welcome to it. I use Espeak because it is the voice of NVDA to me, or rather, the Linda variant with inflection maxed out is the voice of NVDA to me. She is the only

By Sharni-Lee Ward · #37642 ·

Re: I take it there have been no improvements to the flawed espeak ng in 2017.4?

I will add that one of my favourite features to work with in NVDA is the Speech Dictionary. Espeak might have some issues out of the box, but it is quite receptive to alternative pronunciations via

By Sharni-Lee Ward · #37641 ·

Re: I take it there have been no improvements to the flawed espeak ng in 2017.4?

I will never ever never ever never ever use ESpeak. Its horrid and like I’ve said billions of time on this this is a put off for people like my wife who is also blind and has a progressive hearing

By Lino Morales <linomorales001@...> · #37640 ·

Re: I take it there have been no improvements to the flawed espeak ng in 2017.4?

No, I'm not a fan of Eloquence. I liked Espeak from the first time I heard it, and I now associate it with NVDA. I've been using it for six years and I doubt I could become comfortable with any

By Sharni-Lee Ward · #37639 ·

Re: I take it there have been no improvements to the flawed espeak ng in 2017.4?

It has to be better than Microsoft Sam. That one sounded like a fat man with a rolled up sock in his mouth. LOL

By Ervin, Glenn · #37638 ·

Re: I take it there have been no improvements to the flawed espeak ng in 2017.4?

Hey somebody buy this guy/chick a old Echo speech synth that was once used on the old Apple 2 E and 2 GS. He/she will have fun reading fan fic on that thing hehehehehehe! Lino Morales

By Lino Morales <linomorales001@...> · #37637 ·

Re: I take it there have been no improvements to the flawed espeak ng in 2017.4?

I'll admit I've not heard Eloquence outside of Jaws and the addon I was sent some years back. I didn't know the version in Jaws was different to Eloquence on its own. The one in the addon I have

By Sharni-Lee Ward · #37636 ·

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