hey i found the solution to the voice lag. go to www.speechhub.org and install speech hub. then go into program files x86 speech hub NVDA addon and install the speech hub addon inside that folder. restart nvda. then choose speech hub sapi5. you should find the voice a bit less laggy. perhaps jake after you record more phrases with keynote and once the final version is there with all its phrases then it will read better. at least with speech hub sapi5 you can use it as a say all voice with NVDA. it works quite good and other mnlp voices work ok with being processed through speech hub first.

i wonder if it would be worth getting a computer with a core i7 processor, 8gigs ram and 128gb solid state hard drive? wonder if it would lag at all then?

Hay jake, could you give us all a tutorial on how to create voices like this one?

I'm starting to think my system isn't suited for this voice. Macbook pro 2015 with 8gb ram, 2.7ghz intel core i5, running a windows xp virtual machine, which of course can only accept up to 3gb of ram. When I click the I want to use a sapi voice button, then load keynote, it says, mnlp has stopped working, with the standard error report dialogue.

Hey

While this is a bit different from the KNG synth, it's surprisingly similar in a lot of ways. This project is neat! Keep it up!

Can't wait for the tutorial!

Keynote GOld, an old synth. I actually had one at one point, a hardware synth communicating with its accompanying software in Dos. I don't know anything about the windows software or anything like that, just DOS and the actual unit itself

Hi.
I am running Windows 7 64 bit, i downloaded the x86 version, i opened the voice, and then  Microsoft mike came on and said that its ready. After that, the voice didn't even show up. What am i doing wrong?

Because Sapi voices are generally 32-bit even if you use 64-bit machines. And about the Keynote voice, its quality is fare enough, it's not bad at all and partially simulates the old Keynote Gold. I ran across a strange bug when browsing through my PC while using the voice: whenever it reads the expression: "compressed not selected", it crashes and NVDA restarts itself, just like the Eloquence crash words some spammers use from time to time, so I hope that can be fixed at some point. And I know it isn't the final product, so my only word is: Keep, it, up!
Regards!

Did you do all the instructions present at Jake's page? You should do the same steps he mentioned.

For those of you thinking that just because your machine lags, its not suitable for this voice, no matter how good the specs of your computer are its going to lag more than almost any SAPI voice. And the way I look at it, the more samples that are recorded the more laggy its gonna be. This is a nice supplement, but it can never replace the actual sound of keynote, since its basically synthesizing an already synthesized voice.