How can I upload audio here so that people can play directly?

[kaveinthran@disabled.social]

@Tamasg @Alan @BTyson I don't know how to upload audio so I am providing the addon file for people to test and provide feedback.
two varients
1. nvSpeechPlayer (Standard) - Modern eSpeak-style intonation
Uses table-based intonation system introduced in May 2014,
I really love the sounding
https://github.com/kaveinthran/NVSpeechPlayer/blob/master/nvSpeechPlayer_master-59765b0.nvda-addon

[kaveinthran@disabled.social]

@Tamasg @Alan @BTyson 2. nveloq (Eloquence-style) - Classic Eloquence-style intonation
Uses smooth formula-based pitch curves from April 2014, Sounds more like classic Eloquence synthesizer
Both variants are compatible with NVDA 2019.3 through 2025.3+ and can be installed side-by-side.
https://github.com/kaveinthran/NVSpeechPlayer/blob/master/nveloq_master-aa158e5.nvda-addon

[kaveinthran@disabled.social]

@Tamasg @Alan @BTyson can we have these sounds in the tg speech player?

[kaveinthran@disabled.social]

@Tamasg @Alan @BTyson like a voice profile or something?

[kaveinthran@disabled.social]

@Tamasg @Alan @BTyson btw the claude code and what's modified to make it compatible is here https://github.com/kaveinthran/NVSpeechPlayer

[kaveinthran@disabled.social]

@Tamasg @Alan @BTyson If you have some time, love to hear your feedback @fastfinge @ppatel

[tamasg@mindly.social]

@kaveinthran @Alan @BTyson yeah, I think we can add it as one of the pitch modes, next to Espeak_style and Classic. Just the state of Speechplayer sounding the same and either too muffled or too much like a tube makes me too sad to continue it ever again. I'm not a synth expert enough to make everyone happy, lol. Guess what sucks is I can hear both: now at formant sharpness 40 (which is 1.0) it's muffled, at 50 is when we get more thumps though. So yeah, both camps are correct in some way, sigh.

[kaveinthran@disabled.social]

@Tamasg @Alan @BTyson You are amazing, you have done a meticulous work, I can not and will not invalidate your huge tgspeech work, there are many people like me that love the old sounding, and this is just a fluke me playing with the $50 opus and claude code 7 day free trial

[tamasg@mindly.social]

@kaveinthran @Alan @BTyson Oooh it sounds almost like our Classic pitch with the Eloq one I think? Hmm. The standard one is definitely the same as Espeak_style, but I think "classic" is the Eloq one I tried to port after Brandon mentioned it. Will have to compare both side by side a bit more. For formant sharpness, will probably make it 0.9 default (so what we have as 45% on the slider) which removes that thump on words like "glottal" and tube sound but at least doesn't make it squishy like compact. Maybe that's a better default.

[tamasg@mindly.social]

@kaveinthran @Alan @BTyson this is definitely great use of it! I'm glad I can now compare both side by side with a proper add-on! Haha. I still like TGSpeechbox for the smoother, less clicky voice on consonants, and the only reason I even added multilingualness was because it only supported UK English. Our UK is almost the same, so now I can remove some rules to fix the last few things in it and have the add-on to tune with. So yeah, thanks for making that.

[tamasg@mindly.social]

@kaveinthran @Alan @BTyson Haha Claude is telling me we have it as the classic pitch: "Ha! Yeah, that's literally your legacy pitch mode. It's the original NV Speech Player / ipa.py pitch algorithm — the "smooth formula-based pitch curves from April 2014" IS calculatePhonemePitches from ipa.py, which IS calculatePitchesLegacy in your C++ frontend. Same math, same declination, same stress accents, same clause-type final contours." @fastfinge @ppatel

[kaveinthran@disabled.social]

@Tamasg @Alan @BTyson You can look here on the git page the direct download links for both add-on are here and also in the thread

Www.github.com/kaveinthran/NVSpeechPlayer

[tamasg@mindly.social]

@kaveinthran @Alan @BTyson you can always change the inflection scale by adding:
legacyPitchInflectionScale: 0.5 (should be less inflective)
legacyPitchInflectionScale : 1.4 (should be more inflection)
With this people can tune in how "eloquence" it sounds while keeping that same curve formula

[amir@dragonscave.space]

@Tamasg @kaveinthran @Alan @BTyson Folks, do you know what happened to the company which was supposed to release the Eloquence successor? They even let us hear some demos which were later pulled back. Some of them were the original Eloquence devs and inventors. But it seems that they've vanished into thin air.

[tamasg@mindly.social]

@amir @kaveinthran @Alan @BTyson yeah I know, Synfonica LLC - that's where I thought Susan Hertz now works, she was leading that successor but as I recall this must have been 2021 or so that we heard of it starting. 5 years and yeah, no news and very little on the web about the company itself, besides her profile that still lists it as a place she's working at.

[ginsenshi@dragonscave.space]

@kaveinthran @Tamasg @Alan @BTyson do you have a download link. not seeing a Assets button to download this version.

[tamasg@mindly.social]

@ginsenshi @kaveinthran @Alan @BTyson look for the word "raw", next to it is a "download raw content" I think.