software speech

Karen Lewellen klewellen at shellworld.net
Sat Dec 5 13:46:53 EST 2015


but why?
There are many hardware synthesizers with far better voice quality.  Even 
models that were available in USB.
why on earth should anyone be expected to have poor quality speech when 
the tools  exist otherwise?
Not that I am a windows user,  or a Linux one either of course smiles.
Kare


On Sat, 5 Dec 2015, Tony Baechler wrote:

> On 12/4/2015 8:21 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>>  Tom,
>>  Does NVDa support hardware speech at all?
>>  Kare
>
>
> The short answer is no.  ESpeak is the default but it does support SAPI and 
> has its own software synth called NV Speech Player.  However, there is a very 
> basic addon for the DECtalk Express which doesn't work very well and another 
> DECtalk addon which looks better, but I haven't tried it.  In theory, it 
> shouldn't be hard to support hardware speech because it has good serial 
> Braille support, but I'm not a Python programmer.  I had the idea to hack a 
> Braille driver to support the DECtalk Express, but I didn't get very far and 
> it probably wouldn't work anyway.  Therefore, I would say for now the 
> official answer is not really.
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