Each NVDA language should have a prefered voice

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Reported by criticview on 2009-08-30 15:47
When a user switches languages, it would be nice to have a prefered voice associated with that language. This prevents German dialogues spoken in English and vice versa... The best way I can think of this is by creating language specific config files. This would also mean that you can choose speed, pitch etc. for each individual language.

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Comment 1 by criticview on 2009-08-30 16:35
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Changed title from "Each NVDA language should have a default voice" to "Each NVDA language should have a prefered voice"

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Comment 2 by jteh on 2009-08-30 22:43
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Milestone changed from 2009.1 to None

[LeonarddeR]

This is already possible for the espeak driver, but the code for this is a part of the driver itself. Would be great to generalize this, However I wonder how to deal with synthesizers which have more than one voice (e.g. male and female).

@jcsteh, thoughts?

[jcsteh]

I think we'd just need to do our best to choose an appropriate voice. If there are multiple voices, the choice might be somewhat arbitrary.

I think this is more relevant for choosing the correct voice for a new NVDA user. I guess there could be an option to choose a default voice when switching the NVDA language. However, saving of per-language voice settings is more something we'd do with profiles, which is how I think we'll handle synth switching for languages (#279).

[bdorer]

In windows 10 NVDA uses onecore voices allready. Do they have language informations in their file names or s.th. like that?

[josephsl]

Hi,

Almost six years later...

Any updated thoughts?