[Nvda-dev] Espeak 1.42 problems - Russian

[Jonathan Duddington]

Lex wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i've just updated my espeak to 1.42 and noticed that russian voice
> doesn't work. It produces strange sound and is completely
> non-understandable.
> Any thoughts on this?
Not without more information. What is "strange sound" ?

If you install the SAPI5 version of eSpeak (1.42.04) from
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/, does that give the same problem? Note
that additional pronunciation data for Russian is at:
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/data/. This includes information for which
syllable of a word has the main stress.

The eSpeak installation also includes a command-line version in:
C:\Program Files\eSpeak\command_line
(or wherever you installed it). Try:

espeak -v ru -f test.txt

where "test.txt" is a text file which contains Russian text in UTF-8
character encoding (or add option -b4 for 16-bit Unicode encoding). I
have attached an example. Does it say "русский язык" ?

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