I was rather amused at their arnold shwatzanega voice, having the Governator
as a synth voice would be most amusing.
I would be interested actually bryan to know how they hanbdle abbreviations,
sinse that's one thing that does rather get on my whick with realspeak
daniel, ----- especially in vip mud, ---- though the idea of manuscript sapi
is rather amusing.
If they do handle such things okay I might well considder switching myself.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Peterson" <bpeterson2...@cableone.net>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 1:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft voices
I'm downloading one of them now as I write this. I probably shouldn't have
forked over the cash just now but I was impressed enough with the quality.
It's an Irish voice named Catelynn. It's unfortunate though that the
celebrity voices offered as samples are apparently not available for
purchase. It'd be funny to draft Barak Obama as a voice in Window-Eyes or
even some of my games.
He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the holy grail in the castle
of aaaaggh.
----- Original Message -----
From: "dark" <d...@xgam.org>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft voices
Well i'm glad I also have a sapi enabled copy of daniel, and I certainly
have no plans to stop using it for Entombed, Jim's games, blind adrenalin
or indeed anything else just because nuance are being so ridiculous.
On the pluss side, there are some very good alternative voices available.
John Banic recently put me in the direction of a company called ceerproc,
who's voices are really rather impressive in terms of natural sound and
cadence, and are sold as stand alone voices which may be used for various
other programs.
Look them up at http://www.cereproc.com/home
Hth.
Beware the Grue!
dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Lori Duncan" <lori_dunca...@hotmail.com>; "Gamers Discussion list"
<gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft voices
Hi Lori,
Like I just wrote in my last message I really don't know of any place
where the generic Sapi versions of the Scansoft voices can be located
these days. A friend of mine wanted a copy like I own, that came
with Jaws 8 and Openbook 8, that works with games, screen readers, and
everything else, and unfortunately they can't be found anywhere. I've
checked the Nuance web site and there is no listing for the voices as
their once was a couple years back, and if you get them with one of
their Scansoft products like Omnipage apparently the voices only work
with Omnipage and nothing else. If you get them with Jaws or Openbook
from Freedom Scientific they only work with Freedom Scientific
products. If you buy them from Nextup they only work with products
like Text Aloud, News Aloud, and Weather Aloud. If you buy a GPS with
them on them they only work on that GPS device of course. In short,
there seams to be a universal change in the way Nuance does business
and how exactly they license their Real Speak voices. There doesn't
seam to be a way to license and use them as a standard generic Sapi
voice any more. At least not publically anyway.
On 5/12/10, Lori Duncan <lori_dunca...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi I was wondering if anyone could tell me where the best places is to
get
the scansoft voices for Sappi5? I know there are natural voices from
different suppliers but am actually a bit shocked at the price,
especially
as some of them which are supposed to sound natural sound a bit
stilted.
I'd like to get the Scansoft Karon one.
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