@amir I had to switch back to IBMTTS because eloquence64, all of them, including rs, doesn't seem to properly shorten end of utterance pauses which makes say all chunking annoying as fuck. So now I have eloquence64 and IBMTTS and I switch between them based on whether I need precise indexing for earcons.
@x0 Interesting? Because Indexing is why Eloquence64 did what it does for as long as it has, and why RS cherry picked code from the latest upstream Eloquence64. @amir
@nick It's just really annoying hearing it lengthen period pauses all the time when I'm trying to read a book, so I use IBMTTS instead. it isn't a regular period length. Every time a new say all chunk happens it uses some extra length. @amir
@nick I'd love it if upstream could figure out a way to make it properly shorten at end of text. The gap between list and its contents ir larger. Maybe not quite as large as fully off but definitely longer. ANd when you have a say all chunk on sentence as 2026 does? The period pause is normal. Then an extra chunk pause shows up. And I hate! I don't like shorten all pauses, it's fatiguing, but I just want natural punctuation pauses when there's punctuation and no pause when there are utterances stitched together, and they should stack! @amir
@x0 That would explain why I don't hear this, I desperately need shorten all pauses, and I suspect most of the base does. ...Right, fuck, I've got work to do. @amir
@nick If you manage it, please get that contributed to your upstreams! All eloquence64 dropped the ball on this and it's keeping me from switching to it fully. @fastfinge@HOzosch@amir
@x0 Dude, any possibility one of us can get you to dig in and try to fix it? Not that I refuse to, but I would genuinely prefer the person fixing it be the person hearing it. @fastfinge@HOzosch@amir
@nick@x0@amir@HOzosch Yup, I can't hear this at all. I just leave shorten pauses set to always and it sounds correct to me. So it's not something I can fix.
@fastfinge It's specifically the end of text setting only, it isn't shortening at end of text like it advertises. That's the bug. IBMTTS does it correctly. @nick@amir@HOzosch
@x0@nick@amir@HOzosch Like I say, I literally don't notice any difference between IBMTTS and eloquence_64. So whatever the issue is, I wouldn't be able to tell if it was fixed or not.
