Modified AcapelaInfovox3 driver to use some Infovox3 voices in NVDA screen access program.
The driver works with Infovox3 voices released in 2015 under SAPI5, and only with thirty-one voices of a certain version.
Драйвер предоставляется без встроенных голосов, но с добавлеными языковыми модулями для 26 языков.
Polish.
Portuguese.
In previous versions from 2023 and older, there are only 10 language modules.
At the beginning of 2024, 16 more language modules were discovered.
Until 2023, there were 31 votes.
At the beginning of 2024, 34 more votes were found.
Currently, the number of votes is 65.
Use
you can only use voices released in 2015 for SAPI5, subsequent updated voices are not suitable for the driver. In search of more voices and languages, many updated versions of these voices released from 2016 to 2024 were checked, but not which voices did not launch.
It is also not possible to use voices from the site Acapela-nvda.com or obtained from the Acapela TTS application for Android.
Attention! The very first thing you need to install
the driver. You can download the driver in the list of drivers on the page:
https://nvda.ru/acapela-infovox3
If you are already on this page, then look in the list below.
After installing the driver, you need to add the voices you need yourself, we do it this way:
\1. Download the archive with the voice from the list on the page Acapela infovox3
For example, the Russian voice Alyona22k_HQ.zip
\2. Copy the archive with the voice
Along the way:
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If this is a stationary version:
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\nvda\addons\AcapelaInfovox3\synthDrivers\tts\voices "
or
"%APPDATA%\nvda\addons\AcapelaInfovox3\synthDrivers\tts\voices"
If it is a portable copy:
"userConfig\addons\AcapelaInfovox3\synthDrivers\tts\voices"
We place the archive with the voice in the folder with the desired language, then extract the contents of the archive directly into the folder with the language module.
The archive contains a folder with voice modules, so after extraction, the folder of the language module should
another folder with the voice will appear, and the voice files are already in it.
You do not need to extract to a new folder with the archive name, in this case there will be a double nesting of folders.
You can extract voices from archives anywhere else, and then move the folders with them along one of the paths suitable for your NVDA.
After completing the addition of a voice or voices, restart NVDA.
We open the speech synthesizer selection in NVDA with the Incert+Control+S command.
Activate Acapela Infovox3.
Start the voice setting with the Incert+Control+V command.
After setting up, do not forget to save the configuration with the Incert+Control+C command.
The driver does not allow full language switching for most voices.
Since the driver was created in an environment of Arabic-speaking NVDA users, language switching is only available between Arabic and several English voices through a special voice switch.
In addition, there is one Arabic-English High-quality voice among the voices
A bilingual Nizar voice that can pronounce English text. If you need to read only Arabic and English, then just after adding this voice, select the Nizar voice in the voice settings.
For other languages and voices, only single mode is available.
You can start the Arabic switch from the NVDA menu, the AcapelaInfovox3 submenu.
Attention!
After you run the "Arabic switch" option.
The following options will be available in the switch window:
Arabic automatic switch Choose a voice dialog :
Enable the checkbox is unchecked
list
* heather
* Ryan
* Peter
* Tracy
By checking the Enable checkbox
and by selecting the second voice in the combined list, save the setting with the OK button.
To disable the switch, you need to restart the Arabic switch and uncheck the Enable flag in this window.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to add all other languages and voices to this switch.
The dictionaries for voices are located in the NVDA user folder along the path:
"%APPDATA%\nvda\addons\AcapelaInfovox3\UserLexicons\"
This path is only available in the driver with the prefix "Mode2" modification
from NVDA.RU .
And in the first modification from DroidApps, dictionaries are located along the standard path:
"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Acapela Group\infovox3\Userlexicons"
Where the dictionaries of the installed SAPI5 Infovox3 voices would be located if they were installed on your PC.
Drivers with dictionary locations for these two paths will be offered to choose from.
Decide for yourself what is more convenient and suitable for you in your situation.
The dictionary for Infovox3 is suitable from Infovox2.
To use the dictionary in Infovox3, it is enough to rename the dictionary file, for example:
Alyona22k.dic to Alyona22k_HQ.dic.
By default, after starting the driver and the selected voice, an actually empty dictionary file is created, so if necessary and there is a dictionary, we replace it ourselves.
After adding the dictionary, you need to restart NVDA.
Several links to dictionaries for the Russian voice can be found next to the download link itself
voices.
There is also a dictionary for the Belarusian language.
If you have dictionaries for other languages, you can add them yourself using the specified path.
The instructions were compiled by Valentin Kupriyanov.
The manual was updated and updated:
May 09, 2024.