I'm using Microsoft's neural voices for my NVDA say-all voice. I just read the abbreviation "C/SrA.", which is short for cadet senior airman. Instead of just saying the letters, the voice decided to say "C/ sister A" for some reason. Please, voice manufacturers, PLEASE stop making assumptions about abbreviations, dates, and acronyms.
@alexhall It's not complicated, honestly. If you look, all the voice data is bundled in the add-on. Looking at the code, you'll find an API key. Running strings c:\Windows\System32\narrator.exe | grep <api_key> on Windows 11 Narrator finds it right away. What shocked me the most is that it somehow works on Windows 10, but this is literally just calling the Microsoft embedded speech SDK, which seems extremely exclusive and limited for some dumb reason, especially because as far as I know they don't reach out to the cloud.
@TheQuinbox That's interesting. I didn't think there was an API at all for these voices. I thought they were locked to Narrator/Cortana and that was it.
@TheQuinbox@alexhall fair warning that some stuff is definitely broken in a weird way. one of the german voices is really messed up at one of the french ones is too.
@bermudianbrit@alexhall Yeah, that's on Microsoft. Their SDK isn't very good IMO, but it more just makes me happy that this exists now, because fuck exclusivity.
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