Hi Dark, Sure. However, with a game like Entombed you really do need Sapi support for the simple fact of speaking character names and things like that there is no way you can prerecord those unless you basically come up with a name list to select from. That might be ok, but lacks a greater degree of choice. As far as free voices goes there aren't that many that sound as good as Scansoft Daniel or Scansoft Tom. Most are robotic and inhuman sounding like Microsoft Sam and ESpeak. Although, Microsoft Anna sounds decent, and those users upgrading to Windos 7 will have at least one decent voice to play with. So were I to go with Sapi support I'd have to document where to buy better quality voices, or tell them to upgrade to Windows 7. Not a great solution, but if people are truly interested in the products they might pay for the better voices.
On 2/26/10, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Funnily enough Tom, I don't think I've ever actually quit hal for a game, I > just flick the voice and/or keys off as needed. In fact, I've frequently > used pause time in a game to go and do something like check E-mails, > or, ---- especially in the case of entombed, leave the game running in the > background while I either check facts in game or answer questions and rive > reports on how I'm doing, ---- which I obviously write with Hal. > > Thus Sapi support is doubly handy for me, sinse I don't even use the sapi > voice to speak in Hal (though i could). > > > the ownly downer I can see with sapi, ---- as in fact i said to Jason over > screen reader support in entombed, is that when jo technical newby blogs > switches on a game, he's not going to be too chuffed to hear the microsoft > voices rather than his favourite screen reader voice which, ---- these days > is probably a good quality proprietory one such as realspeak. > > This might put him off playing games, which would be a shame. possibly > though this is an issue which developers could solve with adequate > documentation the way both Jim and indeed Ian humphries have, by explaining > the relationship of the ms voices, and offering links and instructions to > download and run the best free voices available alongside their games. > > I must confess I used ms sam for a while and stil played the games, but then > again I've been using Hal long enough to remember the first versions of > orphius, ---- not to mention devices like the old talking calculators or > braille and speaks, which had the worst synth voices imaginable, so I'm > probably not the best person to give opinions on voice quality, ---- pluss > all this being said, I now stil have scansoft daniel for my sapi voice, and > wouldn't be overly keen to go back to the microsoft ones. > > Beware the grue! > > dark. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
