I just tried the speech synthesiser from scanSoft again. Last time I had the opportunity to program it with a scanning and reading device, but then I could not share the experience as I did not know the url in order to make it available for everyone to try it. I was just looking at the website for thunder screen reader, and waw! there I got the link to download a 15 day trial version of Daniel from ScanSoft. It is a british english synthesiser, and it is almost real voice. at times it is difficult to know if it is some human voice or synthesised one. Although there are some glitches such as stuttering as if there is less memory. but I feel that word stress is very good. Earlier synthesisers could change tones based on punctuation, but this one seems to be doing without them. I once tried by removing all punctuations, and even then it worked wonderfully. I am not able to use it all the time, may be it is my old habit with eloquence, or something else, but still I would like Daniel to read poems or stories for me. Another point is that I am also adjusted to eloquence to figure out spelling mistakes, which I guess will take sometime for me to adopt to Daniel. or may be this technology needs some more improvements. It works with jaws qquite well, with small performance issue, but if you want to read books, then just push insert plus down arrow and have the fun.
Dinesh intonation si website, the with it now I just used it with jaws. I fetl it is so good, , To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
