[DECtalk] o/t speech synthesizers

[Jarrod Jicha]

I have read with realspeak, and I think tom really sucks for reading, no 
pauses at least on my computer anyway. my favorite reading voice with 
realspeak would have to be daniel because he does pause right at the end of 
scientinces.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Hall" <mehgcap at gwi.net>
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Subject: Re: [DECtalk] o/t speech synthesizers


>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
>>To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
>>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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