Re: [orca-list] New eSpeak version soon, please send corrections

[Krishnakant <hackingkk gmail com>]

On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:32 +0000, Jonathan Duddington wrote:
> On 18 Nov, Krishnakant <hackingkk gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Hindi with orca sounds absolutely perfect.
>
> I do not believe that :-)
>
> I think eSpeak makes many mistakes about:
> 1.  Which syllable of a word should have the main stress.
> 2.  When the "inherent vowel" "a" should be silent, and when it should
> be spoken.
> 3.  Nasal vowels.
point number 2 is valid but espeak does pritty well with the rest.
I think the problem with espeak is that it talks hindi in a british
axent which is obvious and perhaps unchangable.

> But perhaps the eSpeak Hindi voice is good enough to be useful?

Yes it is very usable and I think we can't categorise it as unusable.

> > I just want a few female voices for hindi
>
> eSpeak is not good a female voices.
> You can the a female "voice variant" with any language.  If you are
> using the eSpeak command-line then you can use something like:
>
> espeak -v hi+f2 -f text.txt
>
> where -v hi+f2  means "Hindi voice plus the 'f2' voice variant".  I
> don't know if you can specify voice variants through Orca, perhaps not.

Yes, I was just about to raise that question which is very much to do
with orca.
I see in nvda at my friends desktop that there are lot of very good
variants.  I liked in particular the serious man varient.  I wish orca
can do that else do let me know how I can get this set in a
configuration file.

Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.