This needs to be discussed privately with Eric. I applaud the idea but this is
not the place.
David Ferrin
Always be yourself because the people that matter don't mind, and the ones that
mind don't matter.
-Original Message-
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf
Of Csaba Godo
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 9:28 AM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: [JAWS-Users] ► Offer to fix bugs in Hungarian voices of Vocalizer
Hi Eric,
I'm Csaba Godo from Hungary. We know each other from the JAWS mailing list of
David Ferrin. We have changed some mails during the past times.
Now let me to introduce myself to you a little bit better.
I'm a very low vision programmer who uses JAWS as primary screen reader and who
is involved in artifical speech synthesis. Since Freedom licenced Nuance's
Vocalizer synthetizer family disturbed me that Eszter, the Hungarian voice, has
so many mistakes and errors that makes really difficult to use it with JAWS for
longer time. When Vocalizer was available for NVDA Our small team, consisting
of blind college students and programmers, has contacted Tiflotehnia, the
distributor of NVDA version of Vocalizer and Vocalizer Expressive, to work
together to correct these mistakes. We have managed to correct them with
Vocalizer Studio, so the updated version of both synthetizers for NVDA is
already available.
Now we would like to offer you the same cooperation that we offered for
Tiflotehnia to fix and update the JAWS versions of both synthetizers. We offer
our cooperation to Freedom for free. The only thing we request you to have this
cooperation directly, rather than go through your local reseller.
For Freedom, with this cooperation would it be possible to update and enchance
both Eszter (Vocalizer) and Mariska (Vocalizer Expressive) voices without any
cost and time. We know that your local reseller has indicated these errors many
times to you as errors which makes difficult to use these voices with JAWS.
With our cooperation Freedom could increase the level of satisfaction among the
Hungarian JAWS users. I know that Hungary is a very small market for you, but I
think the satisfaction of every JAWS users is important for Freedom. Or I'm
wrong?
Now some words about the work we have done with Vocalizer Studio: We have
rebuilt the whole dictionary and corrected many pronunciation errors and even
extended the pronunciation and grammar rules. Currently we are working on
extending phoneme database, namely to extend the phoneme-character bindings to
make able these synthetisers to read characters which does not exist in
Hungarian alphabet, but are common in our Hungarian cultural environment. I
mean for example the special characters of the spoken languages of the
surrounding countries.
(Comment: I know that it is possible to edit the symbol (SBL) files of each
synthetizers in JAWS, but in this way it is not possible to force JAWS to read
correctly words contains characters, which have an entry in an SBL file.
If I make an entry for a special letter, ie. for ß (which character does not
exists in Hungarian alphabet, but exists in Hungarian family names of German
origin), then JAWS detects it as stand alone letter. So the name Weiß is read
by JAWS as if it would be written as Wei ß.
The program during the text processing enters an extra space before the given
character. It is very disturbing and sometimes makes impossible to understand
the text.)
As member of the management team of Freedom Scientific I would like to ask you
to help us to connect to your team responsible for synthetizers to work
together to make available the updated and corected versions of both
synthetizer voices for JAWS users.
Best regards,
Csaba Godó
Cellular: (+36 30) 921-9317
E-mail: arpadh...@hotmail.com
Skype: godocsaba
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