A very good "first step" indeed, sir!
The ability to have a few things in skins in your native language is helpful; text translation is hard enough, speech is even harder.
What you have so far is a great start. Well done
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Speech Plugin 2.4
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Re: Speech Plugin
A different "culture" voice doesn't really do a lot of "translating", as far as I can see, it only "translates" numbers into the language. Everything else is spoken as it is, just with the appropriate "accent". Obviously though, if you use a German voice, and send it German text, it's going to sound a lot better than the same German text spoken with an English / American accent/pronunciation.eclectic-tech wrote: ↑January 27th, 2019, 3:00 am A very good "first step" indeed, sir!
The ability to have a few things in skins in your native language is helpful; text translation is hard enough, speech is even harder.
What you have so far is a great start. Well done
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Re: Speech Plugin
Speech.dll version 1.2.0
January 27, 2019
Corrected a bug in the plugin that would generate a pointless log error if the Name option was not defined.
Updated all .rmskins in this thread.
January 27, 2019
Corrected a bug in the plugin that would generate a pointless log error if the Name option was not defined.
Updated all .rmskins in this thread.
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Re: Speech Plugin
Balala, can you run that skin with the voice selector and post a screenshot? I'm curious what voices you have on your system, and how they are ordered.
I'm particularly interested to validate that Microsoft Zira Desktop is always there somewhere.
I'm particularly interested to validate that Microsoft Zira Desktop is always there somewhere.
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Re: Speech Plugin
This sure is something... Well done. I see you're using System.Speech.Synthesis... any chance you stumbled upon anything that can to the opposite? (Speech-to-text).
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Go away...kyriakos876 wrote: ↑January 27th, 2019, 7:03 pm This sure is something... Well done. I see you're using System.Speech.Synthesis... any chance you stumbled upon anything that can to the opposite? (Speech-to-text).
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Thanks for your work.jsmorley wrote: ↑January 27th, 2019, 1:55 am Balala, I installed the German language pack for Windows 10, and after rebooting, Microsoft Hedda Desktop was available as a voice, and when used with the plugin, it spoke the date and time with a German accent, and even translated "numbers" to German. I assume if I also used a "locale" with the Time measure, I would get fully German output.
German is not my language, I'm not interested into it. Would be in Hungarian and Romanian. If I understood it well, I have to install the appropriate Windows language pack in order to use certain language. Am I right?
A question: with the new version of the plugin, Gender has not too much sense. It is set based on the Name. For example if I set the Name to Name=Microsoft Zira Desktop and the Gender to Gender=Male, a female voice is speaking, although the Gender is set to Male. Hadn't became this option useless?
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Re: Speech Plugin
Gender is just ignored if you select a specific Name. You can't have Microsoft Zira Desktop speak with a male inflection.balala wrote: ↑January 27th, 2019, 7:07 pm Thanks for your work.
German is not my language, I'm not interested into it. Would be in Hungarian and Romanian. If I understood it well, I have to install the appropriate Windows language pack in order to use certain language. Am I right?
A question: with the new version of the plugin, Gender has not too much sense. It is set based on the Name. For example if I set the Name to Name=Microsoft Zira Desktop and the Gender to Gender=Male, a female voice is speaking, although the Gender is set to Male. Hadn't became this option useless?
If Name is not used, and Gender is, then the first voice of that gender will be used.
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Re: Speech Plugin
That's exactly why I said that Gender became useless.