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Auto Language Switching in Microsoft Speech Platform #2561

Closed nvaccessAuto closed 4 months ago

nvaccessAuto commented 12 years ago

Reported by ateu on 2012-07-25 12:55 Corrently, this voices has a good quality, so that they are been used for several users, as this is a good free solution with respect to natural voices. As they has voices in several languages, I think it's a important request.

nvaccessAuto commented 12 years ago

Comment 1 by jteh on 2012-07-26 00:06 It's definitely possible to implement this. However, having tested it, there is a huge pause between chunks of text when switching languages, almost a second. If this isn't acceptable, there isn't any point implementing it, as we can't shorten this.

nvaccessAuto commented 12 years ago

Comment 2 by ateu (in reply to comment 1) on 2012-07-26 01:41 Replying to jteh:

It's definitely possible to implement this. However, having tested it, there is a huge pause between chunks of text when switching languages, almost a second. If this isn't acceptable, there isn't any point implementing it, as we can't shorten this.

I can't see a problem here.

nvaccessAuto commented 12 years ago

Comment 3 by ragb on 2012-07-26 13:32 The only solution I can think of is having various open handles, one for each voice. Then, at runtime, cycle among handles when voice changes. I did this for Vocalizer, but vocalizer itself manages most of the resource aquizition and disposal (anyway it occupies memory). In SAPI I believe the overload would be orders of magnitude greater due to COM and such. Moreover, in the speech platform (and SAPI) voices are way different for one another, the speed for one voice maybe very different for another, etc. This must be taken in consideration.

bhavyashah commented 7 years ago

Since a more universal auto language switching functionality is in the works elsewhere (by Dinesh Kaushal and others), could we close this ticket as a duplicate of that other? @ehollig

josephsl commented 4 months ago

Hi,

Seven years later...

Considering that we have Windows OneCore and other naturally sounding voices with (hopefully improved) language switching performance, I think it would be best to close this one (for now).

Thanks.