Re: [Emacspeak] Experimenting with multiple voices for mac/windows

[Robert Melton <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

More than happy to be proven wrong on this, I will post a minimal 
reproducer that just pushes SSML to the Speech Synthesizer, maybe
someone here can fix it, maybe I am not implementing the SSML 
properly.  


> On Apr 14, 2024, at 21:10, <codeofdusk@xxxxxxxxx> <codeofdusk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I know for a fact it works with Zira and George as NVDA supports pitch
> changes on both.
> Those are the natural Azure voices which won't work super well for us.
> 
> Bill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Melton <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2024 6:07 PM
> To: Bill Dengler <codeofdusk@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Emacspeaks <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Emacspeak] Experimenting with multiple voices for mac/windows
> 
> Windows SSML support is mostly a lie. 
> 
> It does technically parse it completely, supporting 100% of the defined
> spec, the problem is after parsing they throw the majority of it away.  
> 
> Pitch and Contour are examples of stuff that are not implemented on almost
> all voices. You in theory can get them working with the small subset of
> labeled "neutral" or "natural" voices, which are not installed by default.
> Last doc I could find out of the many, many attributes and features of SSML,
> the internal class implements
> 6 of them. 
> 
> I didn't want to make installing those voices a requirement, all the framing
> for pitch is already in and was even being pushed into the SSML prior to
> 1.3.  
> 
> I guess I can put it back and just alert the user to install one of the 3 US
> voices that support it.  "Guy" for US, "Ryan" for UK, and "Prashant" for
> India. 
> 
>> On Apr 14, 2024, at 17:38, Bill Dengler <codeofdusk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Why do you say that Windows has no pitch support? You should be able to
> send pitch offset in SSML.
> 
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> Robert "robertmeta" Melton
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> 
> 

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