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That first chart you posted is exactly what I am looking for, but for Neospeech Julie or Ivona Salli. Doesn't sound like they exist though. It would be cool if TextAloud could somehow identify all the 'special tags' in a voice file, and list them in a dropdown somewhere. There must be some way to id...

Hmm looks like the problem may have been the voice. Neospeech Julie seems to work with {{Pause=0.001}}, Ivona Salli does not (there is no difference between {{Pause=0.001}} and {{Pause=0.1}}).

Is this a bug in TextAloud or the voice itself?

I am trying to control the rate at which a sentence is read, and to make it sound more natural, I need to insert very slight pauses in between certain words. It looks like the {{Pause=X}} tag is limited in how low it can go. Is there some other way to add a very short (fraction of a second) delay be...

So neospeech julie sometimes pronounces certain words with extra emotion (hi! for example). I have also used some other tts programs in the past which also had special emote tags like "\item=Laugh" which when read would actually sound like a person laughing. My question - how do you find o...

Adding the entry like you suggested did the trick! Thanks!

I have gone into Tools -> Pauses and Text insertion - and removed all pauses between paragraphs, however, Neospeech Julie still does a slight pause between lines. This is very annoying because when you convert a pdf to text, it adds tons of new lines everywhere. Example... This is an example "p...

Is anyone aware of any other reader programs that work with neo speech voices? Seems like thats my only option at this point .

Jim posted a example above In this case, I think I'd recommend starting with a dictionary entry that is very simple, and editing the entry as needed. The simplest thing you can do is use a simple text match instead of a regular expression, like this: Text Matching: Simple Text hey! Pronounce Using: ...

Well I have been playing around with the regular expressions (thanks for all the tips) but unfortunately I cant seem to get any results that I couldn't already get with simple text match/replace. I still find it hard to believe that there is no way to control the pause in between words. Is the pause...

Haven't had a ton of time to play with this, but not having much luck so far . If anyone can confirm that they have been able to successfully get the julie voice (or any voice with expressions) to use a expressive version of a word without effecting the rest of the sentence, please let me know!

@PHenry1026 Wait, where do I paste that monster line of syntax? "(?#hey!)(?m)(?<=^|\s|['"‘“(]|\p{Pi}|\p{Ps}|\p{Pd})hey!(?!\s*?\r\n)(?= +(?-i)[a-z])" goes where? And where did you find the documentation for all these commands? Controlling the voices at this level is not possible from T...

Hmm well I went to 'Tools->Pauses and text insertion' and removed the pause after sentences entry, but I still get pauses between sentences (just normal sentences). Is there some other setting I need to change in order to remove the auto pauses at the end of sentences? I am also noticing that some s...

In an ideal world, It seems like the most elegant solution would be to have a tag (like <pause 15ms> or <pause 0ms>) that you could insert between words in TextAloud. That way, users would have direct control over the rhythm of sentences (for times when the auto generated pacing is a bit off). I gue...

Is there any way to manually control the way a particular word is pronounced in a sentence? For example, with the Julie voice, sometimes it might be nice to use a "Hey!" instead of typical boring "Hey". However, if you use "Hey!" in the middle of a sentence, you get a n...