Re: [Espeak-general] Comments on espeak Version with Master Build of NVDA

[David G. <dgo...@as...>]

Jonathan,
Thank you for your suggestion.  I did as you advised, downloading the Sapi5 version of Espeak and tried it with NVDA.  As you predicted, the sapi5 version did not produce the harshness that I am hearing with the latest master builds.  Btw, it sounds fine with 2013.3.  I am assuming it may be an NVDA issue.  I'm willing to file this as a ticket in their Trac system.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Duddington [mailto:jo...@ta...] 
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 4:11 PM
To: esp...@li...
Subject: Re: [Espeak-general] Comments on espeak Version with Master Build of NVDA

On 06 Feb, David Goldfield <dgo...@as...> wrote:

> With the latest NVDA master builds, I'm noticing a harshness in the
> way it handles some consonants that I've never heard before.  I
> realize that our perceptions of speech can be subjective, but I'm
> finding it a bit jarring and am wondering if others notice it.  One
> thing that really jumps out at me is the V when it says "level" when
> I'm moving through headings on a Web page, as in "heading level 3." 
> I'm wondering if the changes are permanent.

I don't think I've made any change to the sound of the 'v' consonant
which is used by the "en" and "en-us" voices.

Please check whether this effect if you install the SAPI5 version of
eSpeak (from http://espeak.sourceforge.net/download.html) and choose
the ESPEAK-EN voice from the SAPI5 synthesizer in NVDA.

eSpeak produces sound at 22050 Hz.  One reason why the eSpeak voice can
sound "rough" is if some other software is re-sampling the speech into
a different sampling rate.  But this should not be a problem with NVDA,
unless NVDA has changed something.


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