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["T.V Raman" <raman AT google.com>]

software Dectalk or Outloud

software-dectalk should compile on the mac


Parham Doustdar writes:
 > Hi Raman,
 > This makes sense. Is there a “good version” we can experience? As in, a 
 > speech server that you consider to be the most accurate to how you 
 > intended the speech to sound like?
 > I have read the documentation on the rationale behind conveying 
 > information with different voice attributes, but I’d love to hear how that 
 > actually sounds in practice.
 > Thanks!
 > 
 > > On 29 Feb 2024, at 17:42, T.V Raman <raman AT google.com> wrote:
 > > 
 > > From what you say my guess is:
 > > 
 > > 1. The mac voices need tuning.
 > > 2. You've been mostly relying on the pauses in the old python server. 
 > > i.e.,
 > > 3. The voice property changes either *never* worked, error -- or were
 > >   too suble.
 > > 4. Either way the tuning needs to happen in mac-voices.el
 > > 
 > > 
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