very well said. The speech on the Booksense is about as pleasant as a
tts voice can be, but I'm still one of those who, given the choice,
prefers human narrators whenever possible. I don't understand all the
praise for eloquence, though. I use it on my computer due to high speeds
and being responsive, but for a reading device like the booksense, it
definitely wouldn't be my first choice. As great as it is, it just
sounds to mechanical for pleasure reading. Still, for my main computer,
it's the only realistic option for daily use, and since I've been
reading a lot of fan fiction lately, I've somewhat gotten used to the
way eloquence reads, but I'd still never want it for the booksense.
Just my opinion, of course.
Missy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dianne B. Phelps" <[email protected]>
To: "'EVAN REESE'" <[email protected]>; "'GW-micro'"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 12:33 AM
Subject: RE: [GW-Booksense] new voices for the booksense?
I think the reason we don't see something like Elliquence is that there
is
only so much memory to hold what is necessary to generate speech and
sounds
on a divice the size of the Book Sense. After my disappointment with the
Victor Reader stream, I am amazed the Book Sense is as good as it is.
Having said that, there are people among us who simply are not
comfortable
reading with the speech synthesizer. Two of my friends, people I have
known
for many years, simply won't tolerate anything that isn't human
narrated,
and that's ok. Reading needs to be something comfortable and as long as
there are choices, there is certainly nothing wrong with opting for
digitally recorded material rather than speech synthesis.
Dianne
-----Original Message-----
From: EVAN REESE [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 6:22 PM
To: GW-micro
Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] new voices for the booksense?
True, human readers mispronounce things, but my Window Eyes with
Eloquence
mispronounces a lot less than the voice on my Book Sense. I wish they
would
have just installed Eloquence on the Book Sense. It's very
understandable at
high rates of speech and it has substantially better pronunciation than
what's in there now.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terri Pannett" <[email protected]>
To: "Dianne B. Phelps" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] new voices for the booksense?
Don't change the voices! They're great!
They mispronounce words, but so do human readers! A human reader
should
know better, but some people never learned phoenics.
Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.
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