Re: Vocalizer Siri Voices For JAWS or NVDA
Or they made their own Version.
But I might be wrong there.
What I don't get is why no one is able to sell one definitive Vocalizer package with all voices in all variants from low Quality to high, with the official dictionary Editor, with the extra modules for reading foreign words, names of streets and Locations (for all the Navigation devices for cars) and so on.
And then there is supposedly a program in the SDK similar to Loquendo's Voice Experience Classic.
If you don't know what this is, it was a program similar to TextAloud, but made by Nuance in which you can read text, pre-process it and also insert tags for reading pre-recorded sentences like greetings for example.
And you are supposed to also have (at least for some voices) the same Feature Loquendo TTS had, namely speech tags for reading text more emotionally, e.g. sad, angry, or as a whisper.
And then there are supposed to be the pre-recorded things like laughs or differe
nt crying sounds you could place in a text file in a predetermined code which then would be interpreted and not read as-is.
But how are you supposed to use the Vocalizer dictionary in NVDA?
You can use dictionary Features in NVDA or JAWS.
But you can't share them between products.
If you could buy a proper Vocalizer product in case of Windows SAPI compatible, with all the required extra components, then you would Need only one dictionary for the rules you want to create.
And Nuance make it clear in their product Information, that any Vocalizer from Automotive 5 to V6, to Expressive 1 and 2 have a user dictionary Editor, which strangely is missing from any known product.
And then there are the Siri voices.
If These are now longer Siri and IOS exclusive and can be System voices on IOS or OSX, then why the hell can't I get them offically on Windows?
And are you Aware that the offered Siri voices in this Topic (v1.3) are only in
the Quality "Premium" and not "Premium High"?
Apparently no one knows if These voices exist in the highest Quality as well.
In theory they should, because all other Mainstream voices exist in five variants.
And there are more varriants than those five vor V1.3.
Supposedly for very limited devices you should also get them in 11 or 16 KHZ variants.
And then there is the language file.
Most voices use a language file like this: clc_ged_cfg3.dat.
The "ged" part in this example is for the German language definiton or whatever it does.
Most voices for v1.3 use a "cfg3.dat" file.
However someone sent me files taken from a device where a jailbreak had been applied to some Version of IOS 7.
Since it was a German phone I got two variants of the German voice Anna.
The compact voice and the Premium voice, not Premium High.
The compact Anna voice used a file named clc_ged_cfg1.dat.
This fil
e is a lot smaller than the usual cfg3 file.
And the German voice Petra-ml (found only on www.vocalizer-nvda.com) uses this file: clc_ged_cfg4.dat.
This file is larger than the normal one.
Other languages also have cfg 4 files.
I think Ava or one of the others had it, allthough not every voice using a cfg4 file has the "-ml" Addition to ist Name.
You can install a -ml variant next to a normal variant and they don't block each other.
Sadly this is only Information for Version 1.3 and must not be confused with Version 2.2.
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