In Michael Curran's speech at this year's NFB convention, he mentioned
that NV access is working on a synthesizer for people who have
difficulties with Espeak and who want something more like Dectalk or
eloquence. I just checked their Twitter feed and saw they posted a link
to the latest version at
http://t.co/J9mfthJhmJ
This is an add-on which, once installed, will show up in the list of
synthesizers as NV Speech Player.
I'm not sure what to think about it. It is somewhat reminiscent of
Eloquence and Dectalk but I'm not sure that people who hate ESpeak will
find the voice much more appealing. Then again, we have to consider
that this is not the final version of the synth but it's still in beta
or maybe even in an alpha state. Also, it has a lot of extra controls
in the voice settings dialog which can allow you to fine tune the voices
and I'm sure the developers will be working on this as well.
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