Hi Dark, Yeah, I don't really use Eloquence's British voices much, me being an American, so I am perfectly fine with Reed. However, I can and do see your issue with Eloquence because the British English voices sound off to me as well, and I am use to listening to British voices like Realspeak Daniel or Ivona Amy and Bryan. So I'm not all that surprised you don't like Eloquence's British voices.
Of course, as we've said before this is all pretty much personal preference. I remember when I was using realspeak Caren in a couple of my games and a few people complained about the voice because it was Australian English. I can sort of see their point as some of those accents do sound strange if all a person is use to is American English, but I personally liked the voice. Cheers! On 3/7/14, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > I do understand both the responsiveness and dictionary points sinse both are > > reasons I used to like the human voices from orphius although annoyingly > it's had a nasty habbit of crashing on me recently so I've switched to > vocalizer full time. At least with the later versions of Supernova I've not > > noticed any responsivess issues, though whether this is due to sn or > vocalizer or both I'm not sure. I do however fully well agree vocalizers > abreviations are a pain in the kneck, especially when playing rpgs and muds > > like alteraeon, being told I have 100 horse power and 60 street instead of > 100 Hp and 50 staminer is quite irritating. > > I also used to like Orphius for the fact that it's ability to pronounce > various fantasy names was pretty good, it even got names like theoden > correct. Vocalizer isn't bad and I'm getting a bit more used to it as I play > > fantasy games, but occasionally when it says something like pronouncing the > > mad stuard of Minas Tirith's name in Lotr as den netha, or Frodo as frodd > dough I still do miss Orphius. > > For me, one major turn off of Eloquence is the sound of it's attempt at > British English. I do prefer a British synth sinse obviously when I'm > writing anything of my own I want it to sound reasonable with the gramar I > use, just as I suspect you would prefer an American one for the same reason, > > however Eloquence british english is rather horrible, it gets vowels wrong > > and ends words in a very unnatural way. > > I agree all of this is pretty much down to personal preference. > > > --- > 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. > --- 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.
