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.
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