Just wondering, why do you not use the CapBeeper app, from App Central?
Sorry if you have told earlier, but haven't followed the thread so closely.
When comes to testing voices, I am afraid you will have to either get in
touch with someone who owns the actual voice, and have them record a
sound sample for you. Or, you would have to pay for the individual
voice. I do know, a few of the manufacturers do supply you a chance to
perform an interactive online testing of their products. Yet, my
experience with these services, is that they are of limited benefit.
They usually only allow you to type one or two lines of text, and have
it read out. It often does give you little idea as to what the synth
will sound over time. And it will not give you any idea of the Cap issue.
Not all synths supports pitch changing, and even the ones that do, may
vary in quality of the pitching. Far as I know, all the Vocalizer series
should support pitch adjustment, Eloquence does, and I thought Dectalk
as well. Also the ESpeak voices do support pitching somehow, but they
are not very nice for long-termed usage. In general, the SAPI voices
from Nuance (Scansoft) do NOT support pitching, so you may want to steer
clear of them.
Personally, I did use the CapBeeper app from App Central, on an earlier
machine, with a voice that did not support pitching. It did give a tiny
beep, on any Caps you arrowed through.
Hth,
David
On 3/5/2015 9:49 AM, Rick Thomas via Talk wrote:
Hi Chris: After a couple of days of using the word "cap" to indicate capital
letters I am ready to jump out of my skin with the delay waiting for the
word cap to complete and not hearing the letter I type but only the word
"cap" unless I pause after typing every letter that I capitalize for some
time.
I know you are likely not a professional programmer but that "cap" indicator
is a real pain trying to type computer code at any speed..
I do programming and in the world of pros we use camel casing for allot of
words like:
StockMetrixTableClass and dbDDLClass. Typing the capitals requires stopping
and listening to the word cap until it is done then I can type the next
letter with confidence but in programming there are hundereds if not
thousands of caps that need to be typed and often in sequence making the
word cap real hassle versus a pitch change and slowing things down.
I want to evaluate some synths to see which one would work decently with my
computer and WindowEyes.
How do I evaluate them to see how changing voicing, pitch, speed and other
WE settings impact reading of selected material as I type, reading of caps
as I type, latency and lag times as well as just listening to a sample voice
reading something.
I want to know which synths work properly with WindowEyes and which ones
have weaknesses or problems for the type of high speed work I do before
throwing money at one of them.
Note typeing the letters U S A below read nothing but cap cap cap unless I
wait until the word cap was completey spoken for each letter.
Rick USA
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