Re: [orca-list] voice profiles?

[Paul Hunt <huntp ukonline co uk>]

Hi,

While I wouldn't have much use for this feature myself, I can certainly 
see how it might be useful to those who frequently have to switch languages.

I would imagine people who don't have English as their primary language 
do a lot of switching between languages as they'd use their native 
language whenever they could but switch to English in order to read many 
web pages and participate in mailing list such as this one.

Since Orca currently doesn't preserve settings such as rate and pitch 
between switching synthesizers it must be annoying to have to keep 
readjusting these settings every time you change synth.

And if this was implemented then the say-all feature may as well be too 
because the say-all voice would be just another profile and the only 
difference would be how it was activated - by activating a say-all 
rather than using a new keybinding for switching profiles.

Paul



On 30/04/10 19:15, Jacob Schmude wrote:
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> Hi all
> The talk about the say all voice got me thinking of another feature I
> would really like to see: voice profiles like in jaws 10 and later. This
> would be nice for reading content in other languages, you could assign a
> hotkey to switch profiles and could have your parameter set up for each
> language you use. It wouldn't just store the tts engine and voice, but
> the rate, pitch, and volume associated with it and probably for all
> three (maybe four if the say all voice is implemented) voice types if
> their parameters are different from the default voice. This really would
> make it easier to deal with reading multiple languages.
>
> Thoughts?
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