[DECtalk] question about Kurzweil 1000 voices
Mohamed Al-Hajamy
malhajamy at gmail.com
Wed Jun 16 02:56:41 EDT 2021
Hi Blake, the SAPI4 synth that comes with Kurzweil 1000 is Eloquence,
not ViaVoice. Eloquence and ViaVoice are using the same underlying
synthesizer, but in terms of word pronunciation, the two synthesizers
are very different.
On 6/15/2021 5:56 PM, Blake Roberts via Dectalk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently trialing the scanning software Kurzweil 1000 for
> Windows. Question for list members who use the program: Is the
> installed Eloquence actually IBM ViaVoice? To me, the engine claiming
> to be Eloquence sounds exactly like ViaVoice.
>
>
> I like the James voice which I installed with Kate and Paul as part of
> the Kurzweil demo. I assume the voice will stop working after the
> evaluation period has expired. I already figured out that uninstalling
> the trial also removes the installed NeoSpeech voices.
>
>
> Blake
>
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