Re: Formatting - was Would you be interested in having natural sounding TTS voices by Readspeaker on Linux? demo link included

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Yeah, sometimes the splicing with natural-like voices can be quite irritating. 
I'd still rather that than computerized voices though lol.
  I think Ivona did pretty good at making almost human-like voices. I havn't 
found any other TTS that compares to Ivona. Like, if you ever have the chance 
to listen to the Ivona voice called Kendra, of course, its not completely 
human, but it has some of the most natural flow and accurate inflection I've 
ever heard in a TTS. I have Ivona's Kendra on Windows with NVDA and I just 
increase the speed a little bit (still at normal human speaking speed just a 
bit faster than the default rate) and to me, that sounds even more natural than 
the default speed used on Bookshare for example. Last I checked, Bookshare used 
Ivona Kendra to voice its books when you choose audio. 
But when I listen to something like the Nuance voices, the inflection just 
doesn't compare to the flow of Ivona. Thats why its so frustrating that we 
can't seem to get Ivona on Linux.
Still, I would  take Nuance or just about any other natural TTS synth, even if 
it has some aukward inflections, I'd still take that any day, over Espeak or 
Eloquence, but thats just me lol. I can tollerate short tasks with computerized 
speech, but if its a longer piece of text, anything that I am supposed to focus 
on or enjoy, then I want a natural TTS for that. But I'm glad the computerized 
voices are available. Its really just a personal preference. Some like the 
computerized ones, and some like the natural-ish ones. I've always chose the 
natural ones whenever I have the choice. Even though they're not quite human, 
to me I just find them easier to listen to.
SL
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