Re: [Audyssey] Question about 7-128 Game Book.
Hi John, Yeah, I think a speech range of 150 to 450 is just fine for me. Though, personally I think you might want to go by 25 units for some other users who may want to more fine tune the speech rate. Using 50 units is ok with me, but like I said for some other users 25 may be better. John Bannick wrote: Thomas, Mbrola was what I wanted to use. For one thing, it would allow me to better build some non-English voices. However, at the time, and possibly now, the developers forbade its use in commercial products. The Europeans are funny that way sometimes. FreeTTS has no such restrictions. BTW. I'm setting the words per minute to start at 150 and increment by 50 up to 450. Does that work for you? John --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Question about 7-128 Game Book.
Hi John, Oh, I see. Yes, I wondered why that speed throttle wasn't doing anything with FreeTTS. Now, I know. Smile As for the different voices it is too bad you can't use MBrola do to licensing and copyright with FreeTTS. That would allow you to have different male and female voices for your mysteries. Anyway, thanks a lot for listening to my requests. John Bannick wrote: Thomas, The control to which you refer is our Game Throttle. It controls the speed of games that are time dependent. It does not control the speed of FreeTTS. If that isn't evident, then I gotta improve the labelling or something. Right now we have no throttle on FreeTTS. That being said, I notice that there is a setRate() method on the Voice class. Hmmm... Might that be a clue, he says thoughtfully. Within the next few days I'll do some noodling around in that code and see if I can add a speech throttle. We already play with the pitch in order to give different sounds by gender and age (and pompousness, for the rich folks.) I'm familiar with speed hearing. At our Boston Visually Impaired and Blind User's Group (VIBUG) meetings I often feel like a bit of a dummy because so much goes by faster than I can hear. Your helpful critique is always appreciated. I'll try to fix this and let you know how it works out. John --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] Question about 7-128 Game Book.
Thomas, Mbrola was what I wanted to use. For one thing, it would allow me to better build some non-English voices. However, at the time, and possibly now, the developers forbade its use in commercial products. The Europeans are funny that way sometimes. FreeTTS has no such restrictions. BTW. I'm setting the words per minute to start at 150 and increment by 50 up to 450. Does that work for you? John --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] Question about 7-128 Game Book.
Hi John and all, Last night I downloaded the 7-128 Game Book demo to my new laptop, and am running it with the integrated version of FreeTTS. When I opened the Settings dialog to change the voice rate the setting dialog showed FreeTTS was set to 10 fastest. However, FreeTTS is running extremely slow. I was unable to crank it up to something faster like 350-450 words a minute which is my usual voice rate for voice output. Does anyone else have this problem with FreeTTS talking slow? It sounds like it is half asleep. Grin If this is normal for the FreeTTS that ships with the Game Book could you guys at 7-128 upgrade the game Book to support the higher voice rates I know FreeTTS supports? I like the Pop Corn games, I think the Game Book is a cool piece of software, but I simply can't play the games listening to FreeTTS talking extremely slow. It isn't my usual speed so to speak. John, I mean this as constructive feedback, but generally speaking when a blind user uses a screen reader like Jaws with Eloquence after they get use to the speech output they tend to speed up the voice as fast as it can go. With text to speech engines like Eloquence that can be pretty fast. I knew a guy in college who set Jaws to 500 or 550 words a minute. I could barely understand it myself, but he was reading books, homework, etc like it was nothing. So when I entered your Game Book I had expected, at least was hoping for, the ability to speed up FreeTTS to something that was comfortable to me. Cheers. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Question about 7-128 Game Book.
Not sure of what the word rate is, but I have JAWS set to 45 percent. I send this just as an example. --- If you don't stand behind our troops, please, feel free ... to stand in front of them! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:32 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Question about 7-128 Game Book. Hi John and all, Last night I downloaded the 7-128 Game Book demo to my new laptop, and am running it with the integrated version of FreeTTS. When I opened the Settings dialog to change the voice rate the setting dialog showed FreeTTS was set to 10 fastest. However, FreeTTS is running extremely slow. I was unable to crank it up to something faster like 350-450 words a minute which is my usual voice rate for voice output. Does anyone else have this problem with FreeTTS talking slow? It sounds like it is half asleep. Grin If this is normal for the FreeTTS that ships with the Game Book could you guys at 7-128 upgrade the game Book to support the higher voice rates I know FreeTTS supports? I like the Pop Corn games, I think the Game Book is a cool piece of software, but I simply can't play the games listening to FreeTTS talking extremely slow. It isn't my usual speed so to speak. John, I mean this as constructive feedback, but generally speaking when a blind user uses a screen reader like Jaws with Eloquence after they get use to the speech output they tend to speed up the voice as fast as it can go. With text to speech engines like Eloquence that can be pretty fast. I knew a guy in college who set Jaws to 500 or 550 words a minute. I could barely understand it myself, but he was reading books, homework, etc like it was nothing. So when I entered your Game Book I had expected, at least was hoping for, the ability to speed up FreeTTS to something that was comfortable to me. Cheers. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Question about 7-128 Game Book.
Hi Charles, Yeah, I am not sure how many words per minute 45% is in Jaws, but that is around what I have Jaws 9 set to on my laptop when I am using the shark. With Eloquence 45% is pretty fast. Certainly a lot faster than FreeTTS is in the Game Book. Charles Rivard wrote: Not sure of what the word rate is, but I have JAWS set to 45 percent. I send this just as an example. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] Question about 7-128 Game Book.
Thomas, The control to which you refer is our Game Throttle. It controls the speed of games that are time dependent. It does not control the speed of FreeTTS. If that isn't evident, then I gotta improve the labelling or something. Right now we have no throttle on FreeTTS. That being said, I notice that there is a setRate() method on the Voice class. Hmmm... Might that be a clue, he says thoughtfully. Within the next few days I'll do some noodling around in that code and see if I can add a speech throttle. We already play with the pitch in order to give different sounds by gender and age (and pompousness, for the rich folks.) I'm familiar with speed hearing. At our Boston Visually Impaired and Blind User's Group (VIBUG) meetings I often feel like a bit of a dummy because so much goes by faster than I can hear. Your helpful critique is always appreciated. I'll try to fix this and let you know how it works out. John --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Question about 7-128 Game Book.
if your talking about jaws rate, i am usually listening to jaws at 85/90% rate. but then again, i have been listening to jaws lets see, since 3.0 or 3.1 w2hen it first started? can't remember exactly the first version. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Question about 7-128 Game Book. Hi Charles, Yeah, I am not sure how many words per minute 45% is in Jaws, but that is around what I have Jaws 9 set to on my laptop when I am using the shark. With Eloquence 45% is pretty fast. Certainly a lot faster than FreeTTS is in the Game Book. Charles Rivard wrote: Not sure of what the word rate is, but I have JAWS set to 45 percent. I send this just as an example. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
