[DECtalk] o/t speech synthesizers

[Alex Hall]

I hate RealSpeak.  The voice itself is really nice, especially 
Karen, Tom, and Samantha, but for reading it is very choppy; it 
seems to treat every few words as sentences, so the sentence:
"I went to the store to only buy milk, but I came back with a lot 
more."
might be spoken something like:
"I went to the store.  To only buy milk.  But I came back.  With 
a lot more."
I really can't stand listening to that, plus there is a delay 
between keypresses and response by the speech when using jaws 
with it.

Have a great day,
Alex

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Raymond Grote" <musicalman1 at comcast.net
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>Date sent: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:38:24 -0500
>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] o/t speech synthesizers

>Yes, I've tried it.  It has only one female english voice.  It 
reads sentences
>much more fluently than other synths and sounds a lot like a real 
human.
>However, to me at least, it sounds like a real bored human with 
sentences
>that I've tried.  They were just sentences that popped randomly 
into my head
>and didn't seem to be particularly difficult to synthesize.  I'd 
take Real
>Speak over it.
>My favorite Real Speak voices are Tom, Daniel and sometimes Lee 
for male,
>Samantha for female.  Jill comes close but I think it's an older 
voice and it
>just doesn't sound right to me.

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "piotr machacz" <pitermach at gmail.com
>To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
>Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 6:31 AM
>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] o/t speech synthesizers


>> people, I really like loquendo especially simon.  I really like
>> realspeak, 3 of my favorite voices are daniel (good for jim's 
base
>> ball), lee, and jill.  the polish realspeak agata doesn't sound 
so cool
>> in my opinion, but it has a nice dictionary, it will nicely 
handle
>> words in english like way, search, flash, splash etc with out 
adding
>> any of those words to the screen readers dictionarry.  it 
however,
>> likes to spell stuff if there's a number after a word with out 
spaces,
>> like, document1.  it will say, d, o, c, u, m, e, n, t, 1.  this 
drives
>> me insane, especially with longer words.  and has anyone tried 
ivona
>> tts? it's a polish synth, but it's capable of speaking english.  
you
>> can download a demo, but it will play music and say this is a 
demo
>> after few sentences, or try the online demo which doesn't have 
that.
>> either google or go to www.ivo.pl
>> if it displays the page in polish there's a link that says 
english
>> version oor something similar.
>> also has anyone used neospeech? they have good voices too.  I 
heard
>> they are expensive but you can get them on nextup.  I don't know 
the
>> actual price.

>> On 8/10/08, talksina <talksina at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Yes,
>>> I had RealSpeak too.  Silvia.  It's sort of fun, as with that 
synth I
>>> managed to imitate my mother, the voice is quite similar to her!
>>> I use Loquendo into my mobile device, the HTC TyTN PDA
>>>  while Eloquence with the symbian cellular phone.
>>> Those heavy voices such as Loquendo and RealSpeak could be nice 
to read
>>> books, but not for normal screen reader use at all!

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