Hi Dark, Ah, I understand now. Thanks for clearing that issue up for me.
When it comes to TTS voices one thing I have noticed there is a pretty big difference in preference, and a lot of it comes down to what a person is use to. Eloquence came with Jaws and even Window-Eyes for many versions now, and for various reasons people have grown use to it, perhaps even like it, and it is for that reason they want to use it in a game. It is generally faster, more responsive than most TTS voices, and while robotic it does a decent job of speaking text clearly and precisely. On the flip side while the Vocalizer voices are more human sounding they come with their fair share of hang-ups such as are less responsive and don't always pronounce words correctly. Nothing is quite as frustrating to read a document instead of saying m s or Microsoft to have Vocalizer say manuscript instead. Point being,while the Vocalizer voices are superior in many ways Eloquence is still better in other ways. It is for those other reasons that keep gamers interested in using it as an alternative to speech synthe to SApi. Cheers! On 3/7/14, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > 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. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
