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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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First interesting learning in my journey of giving up eloquence: on IOS and Mac, the voice presets for the new Siri voices really, really matter. I have two versions of the same voice in my added voices, one for high speed and one for narration. Default is bad for everything, but the fast preset is quite nice for everything but reading long passages. For long passages it's jerky and unpleasant. But strangely setting narration and then speeding it up to the same rate sounds much better.

Second learning: Espeak on IOS is apparently abandoned. RHVoice hasn't had a release in a year. Vocalizer is the only choice if I want cross-platform voices. I'm just not sure if the advantage of getting used to a single voice is worth the horrible pain of that muddy Vocalizer sound.
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Noah Tobias Carver 👨🏼‍🦯🇺🇦 @NoahCarver@caneandable.social
1y
@fastfinge Why get rid of Eloq? Genuine question; not a TTS die hard.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@NoahCarver Because it won’t work when NVDA goes 64 bit. And there’s no legal way to purchase it for NVDA or sapi anymore, and obviously I can’t run cracks on my work computer.
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Noah Tobias Carver 👨🏼‍🦯🇺🇦 @NoahCarver@caneandable.social
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@fastfinge Ah. Understood.
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Noah Tobias Carver 👨🏼‍🦯🇺🇦 @NoahCarver@caneandable.social
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@fastfinge Would suggest eSpeak, but the iOS driver has a bug which makes it sound ridiculous at the end of utterances. Also, pauses between utterances are way too long. Also also, no Mac support afaik.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@NoahCarver Yes to all of those things.
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The Evil Chocolate Cookie @evilcookies98@mastodon.stickbear.me
1y
@fastfinge @NoahCarver you could always get Jaws
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@evilcookies98 @NoahCarver I have jaws. But NVDA is the only one that works with a couple tools we have.
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The Evil Chocolate Cookie @evilcookies98@mastodon.stickbear.me
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@NoahCarver @fastfinge gotcha. What’s your primary platform? If you’re trying to make the switch in both work and personal life, I might be able to give you some pointers.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@evilcookies98 @NoahCarver I am hoping to switch completely! Windows and iOS for both. I have a Mac but only for testing. And no android.
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