Wonder when someone will make an NVDA addon of the Alex voice. Now that!
would be cool. I highly doubt we'll ever see that day though. But then
again, I never thought we'd see Eloquence for the mac either. Yeah, you
heard right. There is indeed an Eloquence for the mac, but it's illegally
been reversed engineered to make it work, and not only that but trust me,
even if you are! into cracking, which I'm not, and am not even about to
support anyone who thinks it is a good idea, even however if you were into
doing something that dishonest, trust me. From what little I've been told,
not trying it myself, it's not worth it. It crashes almost constantly.
My point being though, if they could get that to work kind a sort of, then
who's to say someone couldn't, or wouldn't! make an Alex addon.
Whether it would be legal to do? That? I can't say one way or another. I'm
not sure. It probably wouldn't be though.
I dunno. I'm just randomly thinking. LOL!
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sabahattin Gucukoglu" <listse...@me.com>
To: "'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries" <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 12:47 AM
Subject: Vocalizer Expressive Compared with JAWS
For my amusement, I downloaded all the Nuance Vocaliser voices from Freedom
Scientific that I normally use with VoiceOver on OS X. For added fun, I
downloaded all versions of the voices (standard from RealSpeak Solo and
premium and premium-high for Vocaliser and Vocaliser Expressive). From this
I established a few interesting things:
I enjoyed using Vocaliser Expressive rather more on JAWS than I normally do
in VoiceOver. This was a very pleasant surprise. There is no startup
delay, and the voice is smooth and doesn’t incorrectly pronounce stray
punctuation marks while reading text. I found it more responsive even than
Eloquence in my XP virtual machine, but not more responsive than the version
in OS X.
More significantly, though, the OS X and iOS version of the synthesiser has
a very strange behaviour of raising the pitch, where the JAWS version doesn’t.
To illustrate, try comparing JAWS and VoiceOver saying “Notes”. This I had
always attributed to the expressive nature of Vocaliser Expressive, thinking
that the previous version was only of better quality because it didn’t
exhibit that behaviour. But now I hear, using JAWS, that Expressive is
indeed an improvement in several key areas of inflection.
In case you’re wondering, I honestly didn’t see much to shout about in the
Expressive versions compared to the similar-quality Vocaliser 5 versions.
Indeed, I wish Apple would offer the lower-quality premium voices as opposed
to compact. My Sara unit is still using the standard-quality Realspeak
technology, and one of the nice things about that is that you don’t have to
listen too hard to pick out the subtle consonants like Ss. I’d’ve been just
fine if Apple had not moved on to the Expressive voices. However you slice
it, concatenative synthesis is fundamentally limited by the accuracy of the
sound samples.
Does anybody have any thoughts?
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