Hi Kara and all. Well as many have indicated or seemed to have indicated here, the voice that works best for the job depends on what you are doing at the time. For myself if I am just doing normal day to day drudgery like going on the web or doing work in open office etc. then I will use my Dectalk express if I am on my main system. For doing any serious reading I agree the scansoft Karen is an excellent choice or one or another of the scansoft male voices if you are reading something that is better suited to a male narrator. What all this comes down to is personal preference and resource management. There is no doubt that at least in the windows environment the better the voice is the less responsive it also is and the more resources it eats up. I understand this is not supposed to be the case with the new apple voices e.g. they sound very good and are very responsive, but I have no direct experience with this and frankly would have to see it to believe it on more than one system because just because a tts engine works well on one system doesn't mean it always works that way. Likewise, I have no direct experience with software speech under linux, whenever I have used that I've either gone in using a terminal with some other synth or if I am running direct on the linux box I have used hardware speech of one sort or another. I am seriously getting the urge to setup my spare machine as a linux box and start playing around with some of this stuff under linux but that's getting far afield here.
As for Eloquence, well yes I am used to it because many of my students use jfw and that is what they have, plus it is the only tts engine that works on my pac mate so I of course use it there. Again it is fine for normal day to day use, and I agree the response time is pretty good at least on a fairly fast system. But that doesn't mean that is what engine I am going to choose to read the latest Tom Clancy book. Well I've rambled on long enough, later days! Tom -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cara Quinn Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 3:18 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Prefered Sapi voice for games? OMG! quite seriously, I'm asking what is the appeal of the eloquence voices? I mean, I personally have rarely heard voices so bad or difficult to listen to in my life. lol! I do like how responsive they are, but I'm honestly wondering what people see or hear rather, in them as far as quality?... <smile> As I said, humor aside, would love to hear from peeps... I personally prefer Crystal or Karen... Have an awesome day!... Smiles, Cara :) On Jan 14, 2008, at 4:53 AM, Cory wrote: > Eloquence ReedEloquence ReedEloquence ReedEloquence ReedEloquence Reed > please! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <gamers@audyssey.org> > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 12:39 AM > Subject: [Audyssey] Prefered Sapi voice for games? > > >> Hello gamers, >> This weekend I have began porting Raceway and Tomb Raider to Java >> 6, and >> I have decided in the interests of the cross platform nature of the >> games as well as end user complaints of Sapi 5 during Monte testing >> I am >> probably going to return to including pre-recorded voice files in the >> games. However, before I do so out of the voices below which would >> you >> personally like to see for Raceway and other USA Games. >> >> AT&T Crystal >> AT&T Mike >> Eloquence Reed >> Scansoft Caren >> Scansoft Emily >> Scansoft Daniel >> Scansoft Jill >> Scansoft Lee >> Scansoft Tom >> >> Out of the list above if you had a favorite which would you pick? >> >> >> >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your >> subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > . > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of > the list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
