Speech synthesizers

NO, it's a thread in elten, in this very forum. It's called "getting acapela for NVDA to laugh, cry and stuff like that".

Oh, thanks, I will check it out now, thanks to that I have a demo mode on a new laptop.

Not a problem. Glad I can help. Do enjoy going through the sounds and exclamations. Believe me, those voices, especially the child voices are really good, well for children anyways. I just wish Acapela could put AI so that the voices sound not scratchy and a little more like Siri or vocalizer. Then i would use Acapela way more. In fact, i would completely get rid of the elaquince addon all together. I wish Acapela would spend more time with the NVDA addons now to make it a tiny bit more human sounding.

I also noticed a strange thing.
I would like to try reading exclamations with different voices but for some reason they work for Russian voice only and do not work with Spanish or English voices.
Did anybody figure out if it is possible to fix it?

Well I just wish acapela voices didn't cost this much. They are waaay overpriced.

One of my friends was so kind as to buy me a license for my birthday but yes, I agree.

I mean, Jaws costs what? 30 40 50 bucks? And Acapela costs 150? Like Come on guys. This is an asential tool for the blind people of the world here. Not some kind of luxury high tec equipment. I mean, they are one of ownly 2 symth developers that have children voices in many different languages. I mean they do have high tec equipment like their comunication hardwear that people who can't talk can use. Now, I can see that being around 150 to 200 dollars. But a simple speach addon for NVDA?
Sorry if I sound upset but it is a ripoff.

Agreed very much. I'm frustrated just the same way. I mean, it's good and all that luxury stuff, but if I need a fast, accurate synth for personal use, I'll go with eSpeak or the hungarian product called profivox.

Jaws is way more expensive. You can purchase a 90 dollar annual license, but that's for customers in the US only, and a license with one-off pay costs 1000 dollars! To get access to the computer, you need to pay as much as for the computer itself? This is ridiculous! Good there are such things as NVDA.

Ok, there's a 40 minute demo at least. But I think it's still ridiculous. Anyway, let's not go off topic too much.

I heard the ivona also has childrens voices but I've never actually heard them myself.

There are projects in some countries, including Hungary, which allow you to get jaws for free.

Well that's true, and in some countries, the health insurances will pay you such aids. But with free products such as NVDA, no one has to spend any money and you don't need to worry about the fact if the health insurances will agree to pay it or not.

Completely agreed! I can't stand that Jaws costs almost as much as a desktop computer; ridiculous!

Canada is the same thing. We have quite a few organizations that help for people to pay for things like Jaws, or really anything screanreader wide. It's fantastic. I love the fact that if someone, anyone is good at using the Python Console, and you knew how to code the right thing, you could make NVDA do almost anything you wwant. To be honest with you, NVDA blows all the other screan readers sky high, in terms of over all use.

Wow, hope our administrator here doesn't read this. His harshness about NVAccess leaves me scared. It's like anyone who promotes NVDA will be banned from the English community, or even worse, be reported to the police.
Wow, can't remember the last time I was so open as now. Anyway, let's get back to the topic, even though screen readers use speech synths, so it isn't as far off. But still.

Hi!
Let me answel all posts in the one.
If you want some accurate tts for polish, your only option is to use acapela Ania for NVDA. And yes, it's not acapela who overprices the synths pricebut the problem is, that actually buy the whole package.
Of course, 10% of this price goes to Nv Access.

Indeed. If we didn't have to buy the whole package with languages we don't even know, it would cost waay less.

Ah of course! So the price is for all voices in all languages? How many languages does it speak? like 30 or so? And there are multiple voices for each language too, so yeah. It really makes sense if you look at it like that, and also, there are the voices in CO and HQ formats.

Hello!
Thank you for your recommendation about polish synthesizer, I also try to use Zosia from vocalizer, but I liked Ania much more, the voice is more human and I use it in voice dream for reading text so I will try to use it with nvda also.
And about acapella voices cost, yeah, I agree, that's bad that we are not allowed to purchase the only voices that we really need as we can do that with iVona voices.
I still purchased acapella because these voices are my most favorite ones.
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Hi!
Let me answel all posts in the one.
If you want some accurate tts for polish, your only option is to use acapela Ania for NVDA. And yes, it's not acapela who overprices the synths pricebut the problem is, that actually buy the whole package.
Of course, 10% of this price goes to Nv Access.

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