André Polykanine

3 days ago

André Polykanine
3 days ago

A friend of mine, Beqa Gozalishvili, a very talented developer from Georgia the country, announced an early stage of his #SAPI5 wrapper for the popular #ESpeakNG #TTS engine. bug reports and feature requests are welcome, he says in his Telegram channel. He does speak English. github.com/gozaltech/espeak-ng… #Accessibility #ScreenReader #Windows #JAWS #NVDA

GitHub - gozaltech/espeak-ng-sapi: Sapi5 interface for espeak-ng text-to-speech synthesizer

Sapi5 interface for espeak-ng text-to-speech synthesizer - gozaltech/espeak-ng-sapi

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#Accessibility #Windows #screenreader #nvda #jaws #tts #espeakng #sapi5

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Bri🥰

in reply to André Polykanine 3 days ago

This is very cool! Glad eSpeak is back as a modern SAPI voice!

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Bri🥰

in reply to Bri🥰 3 days ago

I believe @alexhall may find this interesting. IIRC you do use eSpeak as your primary, or am I mistaken?

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Alex Hall

in reply to Bri🥰 3 days ago

@Bri I do. ESpeak is the voice I always come back to with NVDA. It would be really cool to have the NG variant as a SAPI voice.

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in reply to Alex Hall 3 days ago

@alexhall you can already download it. Pull the conversation if you can and check out the github page. I can get you a download link if you can't find it

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@Bri I found it. I'll have to play with this sometime soon. My next few days are kind of booked, but I'm definitely intrigued.

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@alexhall It seems to work, at least from my admittedly very brief testing

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@Bri I look forward to it. I'm using the Blastbay voices right now, but they still have that weird lag problem every so often.

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in reply to Alex Hall 3 days ago (Received 2 days ago)

@alexhall @Bri I installed it. Quite responsive. Problem though. And this isn't for my exact needs, but, there isn't an installable language selecter. Say someone speaks English and Spanish, they won't have Spanish installed unless there's a file I'm missing? I don't know

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in reply to Mckensie parker 3 days ago

@mckensie @alexhall there's a configuration utility that it installs with it, so you can select languages you want

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@Bri @alexhall Oh.

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André Polykanine

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@Bri @mckensie @alexhall I'm glad you liked it. It's at early stage, but the guy is really super talented.

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in reply to Alex Hall 3 days ago (Received 2 days ago)

@alexhall @Bri Does it let you select voice/variant pairs to be exposed in SAPI like the old one did? Pretty sure he submitted this to ng issue number 7 but IDK if it's going to be pulled in.

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Bri🥰

in reply to x0 3 days ago

@x0 @alexhall Sort of. The configurator lets you add languages, and you can select a default variant to use across all the languages.

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in reply to Bri🥰 3 days ago

@Bri @alexhall Oh. Meh. So I can't expose multiple variants, e.g. a Klatt one and a non-klatt one to use across given langs? Sad. Hopefully that can be added.

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@x0 @alexhall I'm sure it can be.

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André Polykanine

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@x0 @Bri @alexhall file an issue on GitHub, I'm sure if it's something that can be done, Beqa will do it.

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