Hi,
The Acapela voices fly under InfoVox IVox on the Mac.
Thanks for listening,
Alex,
On 9-Nov-08, at 5:00 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Well Chris, The original poster need a sertain language which is
supported, apparently, by eloquence. That being the case, you can't
blaim him for wanting to pin it down. Now here is my opinion on
computer voices, and you can take it for what it's worth.
The purpose of a computer voice is to get me information in as
effective a manner as possible. As such, it needs to pronounce
things properly, and it needs to speak very, and I mean very
quickly. I have alex set as fast as he will go, and he's not fast
enough for me. I sit at computers all day and half the night, and
when I'm in my home I have a minimum of two computers on at once.
The longer I have to wait around to get information, the less time I
have to do anything with it.
All that being said, Eloquence is an infernal piece of crap. It
will run fast and speak clearly, so even though it's a piece of
crap, I'll still use it if that's what's on offer. It is after all,
a lot faster and crisper than dek access32, even though all other
things being equal, dek access is more stable. When you try to read
long blocks of text with eloquence, the pitch decruments until you
think you're gonna lose a couple of pc speakers, then it screems
back up again. If you type symbles in a specific way you can crash
the speech out when it tries to read them back. It doesn't
pronounce things all that much better or worse than most other
speech engines, but even though dek access32 and espeak are also
infernal pieces of crap, they are at least incredibly stable and low
overhead. There are some pretty comfortable espeak variants out
now, and if the espeak dll that comes out with the next stable nvda
has more accurate american pronounciation, I'd be highly tempted to
switch to get the speed up.
When I want to read something for pleasure and the best I can get is
a synthesizer, I tend to gravitate to acapella ryan who is farely
smooth on my mobile phone at normal speaking speed, and who has very
good inflection. The neo voices are passable as well, but I can't
take them with me unless I convert the ebook to mp3. I never do
though. MP3 drains my battery quickly, and ryan is just a bit more
naturally inflected, so I'm content to use him.
For practical purposes though, give me a fast and stable voice over
a nice sounding one any day, though I must agree with you, alex is
the very best digital speech I've ever heard. In fact, I'm pretty
sure he's as good as digital speech could ever be. The realspeak
voices are horriffic. The technology is absolutely primitive, and
the american woman jennifer sounds like she has a cold. The
ergonomic benefit of them wouldn't justify a scrap of the computer
resources required to run them, smiles.
Best,
erik burggraaf
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On 9-Nov-08, at 12:28 PM, Chris Gilland wrote:
Frankly, I'm not gonna get a flame going here, I'm gonna state my
opinion, but past that, I'm taking this off list.
I frankly love! Eloquence. Yall may find me strange for sayiing
this, but I'll tell you what I cannot stand, and that is ESpeak.
Nor can I stand the RealSpeak Solo voices. Now those! things give
me a head ache.
Now, Alex, in Leopard? Now there's! a voice!
Chris.
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: eloquence
I looked at ibm via voice and ther is no tts I can find.
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Hi,
I think it is called Viavoice, and possibly is made by IBM.
Thanks for listening,
Alex,
On 9-Nov-08, at 6:02 AM, Will Lomas wrote:
want it for chinese
On 9 Nov 2008, at 13:19, erik burggraaf wrote:
Why would you ever want such a thing? Except possibly for
language
support I can't imagine why any one would want elloquence when
there is such a good array of digital speech.
Best,
erik burggraaf
Certified Technician
Assistive Computing LTD Support and training
Sales department: 888-828-2445
Support and Training: 888-255-5194
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On 9-Nov-08, at 4:50 AM, Will Lomas wrote:
hi can i get eloquence equivalent voices to work on the mac?
i thought i heard they were available to maybe use with voice
over?
regards will
