Changing IBM TTS Sample Rate

Hello. So, I have been looking and looking at the code for the IBM TTS NVDA add on, but I can't figure out how to change the sample rate, or make it higher quality. What I'm trying to do, is make it sound like Eloquence on iOS 16 beta 5 or Android 4.4. So if anyone knows how to do this, please let me know.

Changing the sampling rate higher than 11 kHz only works with IBM Viavoice, not with Eloquence. Just install the appropriate viavoice runtime and then you'll be able to select your desired sampling rate from NVDA's speech settings.

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/websphere/voicetoolkit/InstallShield/VT6.0TP/Languages/TTS/win

Unpack the jar files with e. g. 7-Zip.

How do I get to that webpage?

This is IBM's FTP server. Copy the link and paste it either into Windows Explorer address bar or use a dedicated FTP client like Filezilla. Some web browsers still might also work.

So How do I set it to via voice?

I guess the link got autoremoved?

where is the link

i can access the link just fine

Me too, but how to get those files out of the archive?

oh the link is post 2

i'm a little confused how you exactly do it

Explanations are in post 2 too. You can unpack the archives with 7-zip or any other archiver supporting JAR files. Inside are usual windows setup files.

After installing the desired runtimes, open NVDA settings and go to IBMTTS page, then change the library path. The file you need is located at "C:\Program Files (x86)\ViaVoiceTTS\ibmeci.dll". Note that you cannot use the function to copy the libraries into a NVDA addon, this won't work.

Error loading library dialog The specified dll file seems to be an incorrect IBMTTS library. Would you like to select another library?

Which driver version? I'm running v22.08.1 from GitHub and it works.

Add-on Information dialog IBMTTS driver (IBMTTS)
Version: 21.03-x0_personal
Author: David CM <dhf360@gmail.com>, x0 and others
Description: This is the IBMTTS synthesizer driver for NVDA.

URL: https://github.com/ultrasound1372/NVDA-IBMTTS-Driver
Minimum required NVDA version: 2019.3
Last NVDA version tested: 2021.1

actually the x0 version is quite good because it has some fixed changed up pronounciation of some stuff

I can't access the link. There's only the message: Can't find FPT-Server.

FTP Folder Error dialog Windows cannot access this folder. Make sure you typed the file name correctly and that you have permission to access the folder.

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Sorry, I summarised the message. Has anyone an idea how to get around this problem?