Hi Damien, That's a good point. Let's take the Cepstral voices. I don't think $30 USD is exactly sky high, but other than reading books etc they are too slow for screen readers. I own a couple of them for Linux such as Cepstral David, Callie, and Diane, and the voices are nice voices for Linux. Thing is when using them with Orca for day to day screen reader work they lag and they are quite choppy. The only time I really use them is when reading a book or e-mail. Otherwise I use something like ESpeak because it is fast and responsive even if the voice sounds very robotic. The Cepstral SAPI 5 voices for Windows are just as choppy and unresponsive with Jaws and Window-Eyes too. I know even in some of Jim Kitchen's SAPI 5 text to speech games the Cepstral voices breakup and get choppy so while they sound good, are inexpensive, they don't work as well as prerecorded speech.
Another engine that appears to have issues is the Neospeech voices. Neospeech Kate and Paul sound good, but both Philip and I have experienced a weird problem with those voices and our game engines. Every other SAPI 5 voice works correctly with my G3D engine but those voices. I don't know why, haven't figured it out since my speech module is according to the SAPI 5 docs, but those voices won't work with my G3D Engine for some reason. So again we have good voices, but are kind of a hastle if you ask me. On 4/5/11, Damien Pendleton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > True. But again, there's the lag issue, and the fact that they are so sky > high expensive. > Regards, > Damien. --- 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].
