hi tom.
I'm Afraid I might not have said what I intended clearly enough.
I was not claiming that Mike, Mary and Sam were decent voices, or as good as
vocalizer, only that I personally do not rate eloquence any more than mike
or sam, and so find it a little difficult to sunderstand why a person (as
I've heard some do), would use jaws with eloquence in a game and prefer that
to ms mike.
Vocalizer I agree is superior to any of these, indeed I've got the realspeak
solo Daniel voice for sapi myself. for that reason, and I'm glad microsoft
have upgraded their sapi voices on future windows, my comment was just
about eloquence, which I've heard lots of people use even now as their
default synth voice whis is odd sinse better alternatives are available even
in the same program.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more?
Hi Dark,
Well, it is certainly true the cost of most Sapi voices have gone down
in price. Most are reasonably priced about $30 to $45 USD which is
well within a person's budget. At least most of the time.
However, I disagree about Microsoft Mike, Mary, and Sam. In my opinion
those are some of the absolutely worst voices on the market, and I am
personally glad Microsoft finally discontinued them. The voices on
Windows 8 are much more human sounding, and are almost as good as the
Vocalizer voices. Even if someone doesn't want to upgrade to Windows 8
there are much better voices available for XP than the default
Microsoft Sapi voices, and I can't really blame anyone for hating Sapi
if all they have is the garbage voices like Mike, Mary, and Sam. I
think if I were in that situation I'd take Eloquence over something
like Mike or Sam myself.
Cheers!
On 3/6/14, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote:
Hi Tom.
that is likely true regarding people's feelings, however equaly that
arguement isn't really a tenable one anymore sinse the days when a high
quality voice would cost you 200 quid or so are gone so your not really
talking sky rocket prices. Plus, on a personal level I'd actually rather
have one of the default ms voices such as mike than eloquence anyway,
though
this is likely me.
All the best,
Dark.
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