Grimm: the Icy Touch, from Bookshare as I hope I said.
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From: "Richard Turner"
To:
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2016 1:04 AM
Subject: Re: Another good Voice Dream Reader voice.
Which title is it?
There is the pronunciation dictionary so you can ge
Some things, synthesizers just don't read well. Poetry, for example, but
then, a lot of human readers don't read poetry well, either.
Arnold Schmidt
- Original Message -
From: "Gary Petraccaro"
To:
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2016 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: Another goo
ack of proficiency in handling
> the software that got in the way of my figuring out what was causing the
> problem with the reading in general.
>
> - Original Message - From: "Wayne Merritt"
> To:
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2016 3:35 PM
> Subject: Re:
the problem with the reading in general.
- Original Message -
From: "Wayne Merritt"
To:
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2016 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: Another good Voice Dream Reader voice.
I really haven't gotten into different voices, figuring that I can
adjust to most anything,
Emma is all right, but "i still prefer other voices over her. I think if I
lowered her pitch some, I might like her better. I can't stand Tracey in the
least bit, and I kind of regret buying her.
Thanks,
Ari
> On Jul 9, 2016, at 6:43 AM, Caitlyn Furness wrote:
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> I love the Emma and Tracey
I love the Emma and Tracey voices.
bookshare is very easy to download and to browse with voice dream indeed!
Cait
> On Jul 8, 2016, at 3:35 PM, Wayne Merritt wrote:
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> I really haven't gotten into different voices, figuring that I can
> adjust to most anything, and that different voices are v
That $50 a year is the best investment for me! And being able to take all those
books with me on the device I use the most, and be able to read them using my
favorite, voices is even better!
Thanks,
Ari
> On Jul 8, 2016, at 3:29 PM, Richard Turner
> wrote:
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>
> wayne,
> Bookshare now has
wayne,
Bookshare now has over four hundred and fifty thousand titles of fully
accessible books. It is the best investment, in my opinion, for anyone who
enjoys reading a wide variety of material. Especially since so many of their
books are coming straight from the publishers.
Enjoy,
Richard
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VDR and Bookshare is a great combination! I have Sally, and while she sounds
quite smoothe and pleasant (which totally surprised me, considering my earlier
complaints about most Ivona and Acapella voices) I absolutely hate how flat
sounding she is. She always seems to use the same speaking metho
I really haven't gotten into different voices, figuring that I can
adjust to most anything, and that different voices are very subjective
to each person listening and what they like or don't like. However,
with this discussion, I went back and browsed through all the
available voices; wow! I ended
My biggest problem with most Acapela and Ivona voices is that they kind of have
this weird up-and-down internation in the middle of words. It's very sudden and
jerky-sounding to me, and sort of sounds like the voice was put through auto
tuning. All the NeoSpeech voices sound a lot smoother when
My personal favorite is Amy from Ivona which I usually have set at 375 or 395,
depending on what I'm reading.
Richard
(From a poster of a church cemetery)
When you are dead, you don't know that you are dead. It is difficult only for
the others.
It's the same when you are stupid.
(Sent from my
Besides Kate and James, I'm really starting to like Ashley from NeoSpeech. I
have her set to read at 255 words per minute, just like Kate and James, both
also from NeoSpeech, but I have her pitch set at 120. I also sometimes use
Bridget from NeoSpeech on occasion, but I have her left at defaults
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