... If it's a Sapi5 thingy, I might not use it after all. Sapi stuff isn't compatible with adjustable inflection.

I've tried other synths in the past, and know their issues from sometimes painful experience. Some of the Speech Platform voices cannot even pronounce the "n" in my name and mispronounce so many other

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

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

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 fe

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 th

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 other

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 doesn

I'm sorry for how snappish I was the other night. I know things need to be improved, but as explained in other messages, I use NVDA to read stories and text posts more than anything else, and when I a

I don't have any decent microphones, or even a draft ready to record as yet. I use NVDA to read the following: drafts of my original stories, drafts of my fanfictions, others' fanfictions on various a

Oh, sorry. I did not know you were talking to them specifically. If I caused any offense, I apologise.

My point here is, until recently, I could read things with Espeak NG, including stories and Tumblr text posts, without any issues. Some of the changes made to Espeak NG were minor and not unpleasant t

A Focus 40 Blue. I don't know how to get Bluetooth working for it, though. It came with two cables, a short one and a long one. I used the long one so I could sit back with it on my lap, but then it s

I sent messages to the Espeak NG list back in December, and have seen them discussing pull requests and whatnot, but can make neither head nor tail of what they are talking about in such messages. I t

My name is Sharni, S-h-a-r-n-i. And I bought a Braille Display a couple years back. Waste of money. The cable started acting up when I'd barely used it and I don't know where to buy a new one, and it

Gee, I never thought of that! Are all my favourite fanfictions audiobooks? Are all the smalltime authors whose books I read now able to afford to make their works audiobooks? Are Tumblr writers who ha

Does it still say "hoisted" and "Hoenn" weirdly? Because if it does I don't like it. I know I'm sounding nitpicky but seriously, Espeak was fine before some idiot had to go and break it, and I don't k

The last time I tried something like that I broke Espeak so thoroughly that NVDA couldn't boot up and I had to uninstall and reinstall from a portable copy. And that was to try and fix a much more min

Okay, I installed NVDA 2018.1, after creating a portable copy in case it became too much to bear. I don't like Eloquence because it isn't as crisp as Espeak. I have compared it to A.M radio in the pas

I've just caught up on all my emails. If I understood an earlier thread correctly, despite our complaints when 2017.4 came out, the devs did not roll back the version of espeak packaged with NVDA to t