Well I never thought I'd be a speed listener, and when you think of it, the 
super fast speech does sound kind of ugly, but it's the utility of being 
able to rip on through a document or book fast that got me inching up the 
speed.  Now I run jaws fairly fast -- faster for stuff I'm familiar with, 
and it's interesting how you stop hearing individual words -- it's like the 
information on the page kind of flows into your head.   Now before I started 
using screen readers, I used to listen to blind friends and wonder what the 
heck made it possible for them to make heads or tails of their rapid fire 
synth.  Necessity makes a lot of things possible. You normally don't think 
of disabilities that way.
--le

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From: "Terri Pannett" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] new voices for the booksense?


I never did like fast synthesized speech.  I have DecTalk set to 25 and
that's fast enough for me.  I have the BSP's speech set to 5.  I slowed down
the BookSense's speech to 4 or 5.

If a human voice reads too slowly, I'll kick it up one notch faster.

Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.

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