Re: Voxin: Shorter pauses at the end of sentences

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Cleverson Casarin Uliana, le mar. 18 juil. 2023 17:28:15 -0300, a ecrit:
> Hello all, I can open an issue on GitHub for the following request, if you
> find it more convenient:

That would make sure that this request doesn't get lost and be seen by
passers-by, indeed.

Samuel

> When using the IBM ViaVoice synth for Windows with the NVDA screen reader,
> there is a configuration option called Shorten Pauses, which causes the
> voice to make much shorter pauses at the end of sentences and utterances in
> general than it would with that option unset. In a Linux desktop, using Orca
> plus speech-dispatcher and the Voxin distribution of the IBM TTS, nowhere
> there is such option to shorten pauses: neither in Orca, nor in
> speech-dispatcher or voxin settings.
> 
> I've looked at a glance in the source code of the NVDA driver for the synth,
> and it appears that that pause feature is implemented using some regular
> expressions, although I don't know exactly how it interacts with the synth
> or NVDA itself. In any case, I wonder if you could give a look at the NVDA
> implementation and replicate this feature on the Speech-dispatcher voxin
> module. Interaction with Orca in Linux would be significantly faster,
> especially when reading long texts, because for each long pause Orca does at
> the end of an utterance, the user wastes a little more time.
> 
> Below is the URL for the NVDA driver, and also a second link pointing to the
> Python file where the feature seems to be implemented:
> https://github.com/davidacm/NVDA-IBMTTS-Driver
> https://github.com/davidacm/NVDA-IBMTTS-Driver/blob/master/addon/synthDrivers/ibmeci.py
> 
> Thanks,
> Cleverson