new, experimental build of SpeechPlayer. I would like those who are brave to test, for a new, more Eloquence-like sound. Shoutout does go out to @fastfinge for helping to get this idea going and colaborating on the repository. eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlayer-experimental.nvda-addon The big switch is that it is no longer a sawtooth wave. Instead, it now uses asymmetric cosine glottal-flow pulse (a pitch-synchronous "glottal pulse train"). So, glottal flow pulses, not continuous oscillator shapes like triangle/saw/square. This has allowed us to achieve a much smoother voice, with clearer consonants but the familiarity of the voice people know.
@ZBennoui@Tamasg Can you articulate what you dislike about it? I'm still not a fan the way I am of eloquence, but it's getting harder and harder for me to define why, so we can actually fix it.
@fastfinge@ZBennoui@Tamasg I wish I could say why, too. There's something ... forceful about the way it says everything, a harsher sound than eloquence. But my brain is just not coming up with the right technical terms.
@cachondo@ZBennoui sadly today my brain and ears both just feel fried for more speech-player tuning. Ugh. Now I get that feeling, @fastfinge had it yesterday, today I'm really feeling that too. Haha. When your ear has to hear 30 differen build versions of the same DLL with sometimes the shittiest of compression and extreme clipping as you tune knobs, it really does grade on your hearing, ha. Never would have thought that kind of thing can only be done in small chunks too, at one point I had actual ringing in my ear for like 5 minutes after testing a bad combo of sound.
@Tamasg@cachondo@ZBennoui Yup. And I find I have to swap back to eloquence frequently, or else I lose my way completely, and everything starts to sound fine to me.
