Pause duration problem
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Pause duration problem
It seems my previous post didn't get posted, and since I have done some more testing with my French voices, I am re-posting. I am trying to insert a 20 second pause {{Pause=20}}. The Acapela Julie22 will pause for 8 seconds, and the following voices pause for about 33 seconds: AT&T Juliette16, Nuance Amelie22, and ScanSoft Sebastien22. I haven't tested with my English voices, but I remember having the same problems with them also. I noticed another post on this subject from 6 years ago: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6213. Thanks.
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Re: Pause duration problem
We see this problem sometimes, some voices loose accuracy with longer pauses or don't handle them at all. I don't know of any fixes for the problem, but one workaround that has worked is to break long pauses into multiple, shorter pauses. If you can get 8 second pauses to work accurately, use that as your maximum pause duration. Then instead of using {{Pause=20}}, try: {{Pause=8}} {{Pause=8}} {{Pause=4}}
To simplify this, you can use TextAloud pronunciation dictionary maintenance to create your own pause 'tags'. For example, you create an entry in pronunciation dictionary maintenance that respells the text ##Pause20 as the three pauses above. So you would create separate dictionary entries for each long pause duration you need.
Does that help?
To simplify this, you can use TextAloud pronunciation dictionary maintenance to create your own pause 'tags'. For example, you create an entry in pronunciation dictionary maintenance that respells the text ##Pause20 as the three pauses above. So you would create separate dictionary entries for each long pause duration you need.
Does that help?
Jim Bretti
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