Hum, well for one thing the development on this is mostly done by
HIMS. I would imagine the decision to make a book reader probably
rested with them, and that the development of a book reader is
detracting very little if at all from the development of window-eyes.
Which leads right in to another thing. GW probably has to
distribute and support the book sense or risk losing the agreements
they have with the hardware developer.
And to finish up, the book sense is the best of these players there
is on paper. We'll see when the price emerges and we actually take
the hardware out of the box, but HIMS and gw are developing a solid
rep for putting the most amount of hardware and the best quality
into this stuff. I'm supposed to like humanware because I live in
Canada and they were first at a lot of this stuff and the peir
pressure is overwelming, but their hardware is built like junk.
Sorry boys it's just a fact. Give me a nice plextor book reader any
day. The thing is, the portable plextalk pocket doesn't compete on
features nearly as well as it competes on quality.
I never thought I'd want to own one of these type of players, but my
mouth is really wattering over the book sense.
Best,
erik burggraaf
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On 22-Mar-09, at 11:29 AM, Chris Hill wrote:
Phone systems are based on recorded and digitized human voices. They
have limited vocabularies and require a good bit of processing power
to pull off. If you want your speech to be able to pronounce any
word, such systems just don't cut it.
Now, why gw-micro would want to jump in and be the third in the
market
of book readers, that one is beyond me. I'd much rather see bug
fixes
in window-eyes.
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:01:02 -0600, you wrote:
It's sad when some of the phone auto sestem sounds better then our
voices; and yet, they want to charge us so much.
At 03/21/2009, Mary Otten wrote:
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:58:08 -0400, Jeremy Curry wrote:
1. Voice Text from Voiceware
I'm sorry to hear that. I don't think any of the so-called high
quality
voices are all they are cracked up to be, and because they try to
sound
human, when they fall down, they're awful. Maybe its
psychological. But
despite the fact that these voices can sound good when things are
just
right, that condition seldom prevails, and a wanna-be human is much
worse than a more mechanical sounding synthesizer with known but
consistent flaws. So I'm sorry that there won't be an alternative
such
as a tripple talk chip or even Eloquence. I know that the choice of
speech synthesizers is a personal matter. So I hope that once this
product is out, some consideration will be given to adding
alternatives, although obviously, the hardware approach won't be
possible. Too bad, as hardware like the trippletalk is still the
snappiest, most responsive speech out there.
Mary
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