Actually, I like the built-in voices. well, not *all* of them.
Agnes, Bruce, Vicky and Victgoria are my favorites. Fred is so-so.
For a default voice he's not bad I *guess*.
Jane
On Jan 20, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Travis Siegel wrote:
Heh, that's funny. Everyone loves the doubletalk voice. I always
thought it was too ... something. I can't put my finger on it, but
it just doesn't appeal to me. I think it's because it works well
at low speed, but when it gets raised up to the higher-end where I
usually keep things, it breaks up too much. Doubletalk works well
if you want really human sounding speech, but I've found that human
sounding speech doesn't do well when speed is involved. I really
like the Artic Technologies voice, but most folks can't stand that
one, and I think it's because most folks I've talked to that don't
like it, run it at speed 5 or 6, 7 at the most. I always run it at
9, and like it just fine.
Elequence is a voice I've gotten used to, but it's certainly not on
the top of my favorites list. Most of it's misspeakings I could
fix with dictionary entries, so it doesn't bother me as much as it
used to, but I really don't like it much. Although, it doesn't
break up at higher speeds which is nice.
DecTalk is another voice that is good as long as you're not running
it at full speed. It too breaks up too much to be useful.
It must be something with the way they run the phoenemes together.
Ah well. It is after all only a means to an end, so as long as it
works, I'll continue using it, it just rubs me the wrong way
sometimes.
On Jan 20, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Dan Keys wrote:
Hi,
Boy, I'd love to have the double talk voices or Eloquence even.
On Jan 20, 2006, at 7:53 AM, David Csercsics wrote:
And another one it gets wrong is f l o p p i e s. It doesn't
think you
have boot floppies at all. They're flows apparently. Too bad we
can't
get the DoubleTalk voices in software.
