Category: Geeks r Us
hay all.
Does anyone know how to get eloquence working on NVDA? The old sapi4 via voice eloquence isn't happening any more because I'm in windows 7.
thanks
MJ
Hi...
sorry for highjacking here...
But I too am having a similar problem with sapi4 viaVoice on windows xp I cant get jaws or any other program to detect that it is installed even though the viaVoice was installed fine.
I've searched on google but to no avale. I only find sapi5 repair stuff of which none has worked for the sapi4 problem.
that's kind of odd, i have sapi4 eloquence running on here for NVDA with no issues. in fact, it was rather easy to get running.
I have an eloquence nvda driver package. I haven't figured out where to install it as the new version (2009.1) doesn't come with the synth drivers folder. I don't know where to put it. I didn't try too hard to be honest. I'll look into it again... just as soon as I get started on that other thing.
Why don't they just put a clear voice as the normal voice instead of something that sounds very computerised, then there wouldn't be a problem? Even the Sapi 5 voices are better than that thing that sounds like something from space.
I don't think Elloquence is a free synthesizer, so NVDA would have to charge if they were allowed to use it. Not sure what other limitations there are, but for those of you who have Elloquence in Jaws or something else, the high price of your screen reader probably includes any costs involved in owning Elloquence. I can deal with E-Speak just fine in NVDA. For one thing, I can adjust the inflection which makes things sound more interesting, plus I found a different variant than the default one. Yeah, the voice does have some rather odd tonalities to it, but I can deal. Probably the best answer for this question would come from the developers of NVDA. I know on one of their e-mail lists there seemed to be a lot of discussion of this topic. Not sure if non-members can access the list archives but it's worth a look.
I change the voice to Rob or Robert and raise the pitch a little, maybe knock the intonation down a knotch. It's a lot less hard on the ears (a little slimey though).
ok guys. I have eloquence running fully on my NVDA copy.
First, this is thanks to
The "I want ETI Eloquence!"
thread from audiogames.net which is already a great site for audio games.
First, download this file (Taken from above source)
and open it. "for installed versions you need to copy the eloquence.py and eloquence folder to c:usersusernameappdataroamingnvdasynth drivers."
So it has to be copied to your user folder NOT the nvda one.
Good luck on getting eloquence to work! I'm using it fine and it works real well :)
-Tomi
Hey. Thanks for the info! I didn't think to lok in documents; still used to the old way of doing things. It works well. It's a little bit laggy but what do you want for free?
You can get information on nvda with eloquence by going to the website. To nitrogen, you probably need to get the sapi4 runtime.
for more on this matter, I suggest any of you who are thinking of using NVDA with eloquence to go to this u r l and pay close atention to it.
http://www.nvda-project.org/blog/NVDAAndEloquenceSituation