software speech

[Al Sten-Clanton]

Hi, Glenn.  I have NVDA on my Windows machine now.  It has Eloquence 
because we're using JAWS.  Eloquence didn't seem to be on the list of 
supported speech output for NVDA, neither mentioned in the online manual 
nore available when I arrowed around to see what was there.  How do you 
get NVDA to work with Eloquence?  (I know this is far from a Speakup 
topic, but your message cries out to me for the question.)

Thanks!

Al

On 12/5/2015 2:13 PM, Glenn wrote:
> 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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