A Weird Thing with the LH "TruVoice" Voices

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"Leopard Print Elevator" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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This is something I discovered a really long time ago, and believe it or not, it was from changing lexicon settings, specifically, for these voices. It's a long story.

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Note: He is 100% visually impaired, so, if you can, help him out as that there wasn't enough sound to rely on in this video alone.

SPOILERS BELOW - READING THIS WITHOUT WATCHING THE VIDEO FULLY MAY INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF BEING CAUGHT BY THE ANTI-SPOILER POLICE

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FOOTNOTES
1. The reason why I typed IWAY as "Iway" is because the speech engine apparently can't handle words spelled in all-caps, even if it happens to be more of an acronym than a word. If I typed it as "IWAY," the voice would just spell it out.

2. I wanted to make this video more interesting, and also, aside from the one sentence suggestion that Flying Gypsy did, I didn't get any more suggestions. So, I resorted to find a random sentence generator from a Google search, and found this website: https://randomwordgenerator.com/sente...

However, that sentence that I typed (more on that later) was slightly different. The original sentences were: "Someone I know recently combined Maple Syrup & buttered Popcorn thinking it would taste like caramel popcorn. It didn’t and they don’t recommend anyone else do it either."

One more thing, like I had mentioned above, I did indeed type those two sentences live during the screen recording session. But what you didn't know is that I had those two sentences copied to a text file stored exclusively on my laptop, and I had that file open on said laptop when I was typing it out on the desktop computer, which is usually where I make my videos.

3. I originally had no intention to put a tilde before the word "not," but there was a pause somewhere (I think it was after "not") and I didn't like that, so I ended up placing a tilde before that word.

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There some things that I had left out, some after thinking about, and some after a sudden realization.

I originally wanted to include catchphrases from well-known characters including Bacon, Scotty, and Gold, but being the "perfectionist" that I am, that would mean altering the speed of the voices and getting back to "normal" speed isn't easy (I'd have to use Narrator). I suppose I should download an alternative to Speakonia for this reason.

The other thing that I had left out is that I wanted to add tildes to all of the words from that last example. I really wanted to do that, but I had completely forgotten. But since I did not save it to a text file, that would mean doing it all over again and resizing the Speakonia window to (about) exactly the way it was (because of my "perfectionist" ways).