Rod,
Below is a message that Chris sent to the list only two days ago, and
which should answer your question quite to the point, I believe.
Hth,
David
On 3/26/2015 1:33 PM, Chris Grabowski via Talk wrote:
Hi,
The older vocalizer engine does not support pitch. Vocalizer Expressive does.
You could send pitch changes to the older Vocalizer voice and it'll do nothing
as far as responding to the pitch change. Same thing goes for some
synthesizers, they do not support tone changes, such as the cepstral voices
through SAPI.
Chris
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-----Original Message-----
From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Rod Hutton via Talk
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 6:48 AM
To: 'Rick Thomas'; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List'
Subject: RE: Cap enhanced app
Hi Rick, and this is for everyone too trying out CapEnhance,
A couple of things in your note I'd like to respond to.
First, I'm not sure if I've ever heard of a synthesizer which did not
support pitch changes.
If this were so, then, for the synthesizer in question, it would be
impossible to change pitch on the fly using the speech parameters hotkeys.
Does this actually ever happen, namely, that you cannot change pitch use
thing those hotkeys?
CapEnhance uses exactly the same method of changing pitch as the user does
using hotkeys.
Second, in my latest version of CapEnhance, I inserted a routine which
temporarily disables both the screen and keyboard capitalization before
speaking a cap and then resets them to their previous states.
This was to address the problem you had with my earlier version of the app
which produced choppy speech even with Eloquence.
Of course, I'm no wizard, and who can know what effect the app will have
with all of the various synthesizers, not to mention audio devices and their
accompanying software.
One thing I could do is produce a version of the app which allows for tone
changes for caps along with pitch.
Again, only real-world testing would prove its effectiveness.
This app was my attempt to help you out in your difficulties, and, while I'm
glad it works for you with Eloquence, I had serious doubts whether it would
help everybody with all synthesizers. Smile
Indeed, I have noticed a little delay when moving over caps using the
Microsoft Speech Platform synthesizer.
Ah, but this is how we learn and progress, isn't it? smile
Thanks to you and everyone for the feedback, and please keep it coming.
Best regards,
Rod
-----Original Message-----
From: Talk
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Rick Thomas via Talk
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 4:51 AM
To: 'Don H'; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List'
Subject: RE: Cap enhanced app
Hi:
I peeked at the code and it looks like he sends the request to however WE
Handles the request and then WE forwards the request to the synth, think
that is what is going on.
You can google to see if your synth allows for pitch changes and if it does
Contac t AI Squared since I don't know if there is a way of working directly
with the synth via a script without getting pretty deep.
It works well with my Eloquence synth but I don't think I remember it
working with the Microsoft synth and I think I remember the Microsoft synth
supporting pitch changes but since I am so weak in this arena will just
mention that googling or contacting a synth manufacturer is a good jump off
point to find out what is possible.
It is really nice to have my caps spoken in a higher pitch again and should
be a basic feature of any screen reader - and usually is.
PS: I had to turn off the speaking of caps in a higher pitch in the WE
Control Panel for the Screen since it was really slowing down speech but the
CapEnhance does not have this problem at all.
Rick USA
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 5:27 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Cap enhanced app
Is the Cap Enhanced app supposed to raise the pitch on caps when using
either the vocalizer or vocalizer Expressive speech syns? On my system
it does not.
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On 3/28/2015 10:02 PM, Rod Hutton via Talk wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to learn whether my CapEnhance app would be helpful to anyone
having either of the synthesizers mentioned in the subject line.
Since I don't have either of these, could anyone having either or both tell
me which do or do not support pitch and/or tone changes, since this is the
method by which the CapEnhance app indicates capital letters.
Much thanks,
Rod
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