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  • zackmack2000

    oh I know what you mean. Most portable devices I can remember from back in the day used v5, I think the packmate still does but I don't really know as I don't own one, never have.

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  • Diego Gomez

    It’s funny because version 5 cannot pronounce Siri, Liam, or Melanie, correctly. Those were fixed in 6.1. If I’m not mistaken, I think the old Braille Sense either used a version of 5.0 or 6.0. Same goes for the BrailleNote. Unless it used version 5. Oh, and what about the Humanware Trekker from 2003? I’m most certainly sure it used 5.0.

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  • zackmack2000

    I know the braille note empowered along with the braille sense both used 5 from what I can remember. I never knew they came out with a sapi4 version of 6.1 until I hurd an old podcast from bct where Andre louie was demoing ninjam. The tg speech box sounds almost close to v3 if you set it to classic mode.

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  • Diego Gomez

    You’re right! It definitely does sound similar. I also wonder if anyone actually uses version 2.0 of Eloquence, even though it didn’t come with JAWS.

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  • zackmack2000

    I never even hurd what that sounded like before. I only know v3 and up. Also, don't think brandon said this, but the speech platform voices don't work either with latest NVDA

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  • HMC

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  • HMC

    Actually, that issue still happens at lower rates, just not as frequently. So for now I'm gonna switch back to espeak

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  • zackmack2000

    I was just thinking you have to wonder how long it'll take sonada to be updated? Last time I think it took about 5 or 6 months before it was updated to work with the latest version of NVDA. There hasn't been any sort of major updates with that thing in some time. I have also mest around with supertonic and pockit tts I think it's what it's called, they work but I wouldn't Recommend them for daily use.

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  • HMC

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  • HMC

    I found some more info about bestSpeech and crashing/speech getting cut off when using rate boost. Apparently, this is not specifically a 64-bit issue. With the 32-bit SAPI5 version of BestSpeech, this would also occur. So it's something to do with sonic and the audio buffer dying too quickly. So for now I'm sticking with IBM TTS or espeak. They are the most robust maintained solutions that are still fast and clear. For Dec and others, I think we'll just need to be patient. :)

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  • Diego Gomez

    That’s gonna be great! Also, I’m about to do a parody of 100% speech rate. How anyone can understand that is beyond me.

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  • Diego Gomez

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F088RT-4xOwWMi2qfcB-PtcvupWrV_U6/view?usp=drivesdk

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  • Diego Gomez

    https://github.com/Mudb0y/Apple-Eloquence-ELF

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  • HMC

    https://www.mediafire.com/file/fa10r2e5ie7ufrt/DECtalk+4.99+x64+(WIP).nvda-addon/file

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  • zackmack2000

    Just tried the dectalk addon, Unfortunately NVDA crashes when I select it

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  • HMC

    Not surprised lol. 10 or 11? And you're running 2026 right?

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  • Diego Gomez

    Too bad we can’t use the old 4.2 DLL.

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  • HMC

    Yeah. It's messed up that mine works at all.

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