Re: Concerning natural voices and exclamation marks
@9: The US hasn't been back to the moon since the 70s for lack of motivation. It's a great place to build if you have launch costs low enough to make space profitable, but that only happened in the past decade, so until then, they'd've
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Victoria is based on the macintalk engine along with Fred and Alex, so it does! Inflect on exclamation marks, although very slightly. Also, if you want to go really crazy, you can actually control the emphasis and program your own speech
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On jeff.tdrealms.com there are several addons for DEctalk. Dectalk is a perfect balance between an easy to understand speech pattern and a reasonably natural voice. And it does inflect on exclamation marks.
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@Mayana: LOL, someone just had to. Thanks for the Decktalk suggestion. Maybe I can find an add-on for NVDA that has Decktalk? If you know of any let me know. Does Decktalk inflect on exclamation marks?@Jack you're the second vote
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hello. I would like to chime in and talk about my preferences, on Windows I can use eloquence or Espeak interchangeably, sometimes depending on the language. I've gotten used to them over the past few years, and they work fine for normal
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I created a heavily customized espeak variant that I have been living with for years now, indeed I also still have a DEctalk Express that still works great.
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Well, just switch to ESpeak!Just kidding. Nothing can replace Eloquence for me, either.I must admit though, that while I used to loathe ESpeak, it has since managed to grow on me ... like a tumor of sorts. It becomes much less annoying
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@Ty, you can turn on braces by switching to most punctuation. I don't remember if you have to do anything else (I've had my NVDA reading like JAWS' eloquence now for ages...)As far as the triple dot, here's a copy of my default.dic file
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Vocalizer Nathan does question marks, but not exclamation marks. Honestly this is what happens when you go strictly off of speech units and have limited text preprocessing. I think NV Speech Player was trying to rectify that situation
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What about vocaliser Nathan?
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Hello,I do agree that true voice, especially with speed 0, sounds very funny with exclamation marks.
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I started with jaws, so i'm used to eloquence, and don't mind it. And @9, how exactly did you do that? i want to make my eloquence read braces and groups of 3 dots but i can't figure out how to do it.
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Ah, TrueVoice. I always found that synth's reaction to exclamation marks to be pretty hilarious. Interestingly enough, some versions of it actually reacted more subtly to the exclamation mark, and the rather over the top reaction may have
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Ah, TrueVoice. I always found that synth's reaction to exclamation marks to be pretty hilarious. Interestingly enough, some versions of it actually ignored the exclamation mark, and the reaction may have been added later. And I think
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Honestly, I think a lot of why voices in general don't react to exclamations is that manufacturers don't really know what to do. Eloquence and ESpeak do a pretty good subtle hint of an exclamation mark, but True Voice goes way over
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There are some exceptions to this rule, though the natural voices I've listed that inflect on exclamation marks tend not to do it very well. Alex on iOS, and to an extent IBM Watson. In addition, some natural voices have special phrases
Re: Concerning natural voices and exclamation marks
There are some exceptions to this rule, though the natural voices I've listed that inflect on exclamation marks tend not to do it very well. Alex on iOS, and to an extent IBM Watson. In addition, some natural voices have special phrases
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Great, glad to see I'm not the only one who can't stand natural voices not inflecting well. If someoneone with the technical expertise can shed light on why this is the case, that would be awesome. It's like the US, having gone
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Great, glad to see I'm not the only one who can't stand natural voices not inflecting well. If someoneone with the technical expertise can shed light on why this is the case, that would be awesome. It's like the US, having gone
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Yep, I agree fully with this topic. In addition, there is one thing I like about ESpeak, though this is subjective and definitely not as important as exclamations, and I do believe Eloquence also does it in some versions. Whenever
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What happens to the people who bought Eloquence for Android, then? Can they get at least half of the $20 as Vocalizer voice credits? If they are going to remove it from the play store, I guess they're a bit more honest than SVox
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@5, maybe not the greatest thing to say on this forum?
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@5, maybe not the greatest thing to say on this forum?
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Re: Concerning natural voices and exclamation marks
Hi.I've used eloquence for many many years and think i'll keep using it for many years to come.I downloaded the NVDA addon from jeffs dreams and don't care if it's legal or not. Why? Because as Munawar said, the inflection of other speech
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I recall that Samantha on iOS did inflect somewhat well. Then at one iOS update or other, she went so far backward that I half wonder if they packaged an older version by mistake, and called it an upgrade to secondary features I never use
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As some may know already, eloquence on Android, is no longer on the ‘play store.” Code Factory does not have the expertise to update the Eloquence app from 32 bit to 64. Either that, or Eloquence on Windows is a higher priority
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Wavent is moving closer to this point, but the problem is the market o natural voices is moving away from consumer use in general. Companies get access to things such as Vocalizer Studio for voice-tuning/inflection modification
Concerning natural voices and exclamation marks
With the advent of so-called natural-sounding voices, the market is pushing largely for synthesizers like Eloquence to be dropped in favor of these natural voices. My issues with these voices has always been that they ignore exclamation marks
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