software speech

[Glenn]

I'm not a fan of SAPI voices, because they are less responsive than others 
like Eloquence or eSpeak, but when I install NVDA on people's computers, I 
generally use the SAPI voice, which is similar to the voice on the iPhone, 
and most folks new to a screenreader prefer a human-sounding voice.
I use Eloquence on NVDA, as well as in JFW.
As things are getting so much smaller these days, the computers are getting 
smaller than our external synths.
I hope to get an Intel NUC, which is about the size of my external DecTalk 
Express.
My favorite synth was the internal Artic215, now that was a responsive 
synth!  I wish they had made it in a PCI card, as I still have a few towers 
around the house using PCI slots, but none with ISA slots, and I am only 
keeping the old towers going, I don't really want to build any more big 
towers, as I could find a motherboard with an ISA slot, I just don't need 
another tower/desktop type any more.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Lewellen" <klewellen at shellworld.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
<speakup at linux-speakup.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2015 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: software speech


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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