Hi Phil, I think you are right. I was relistening to various voice clips earlier and I don't think it is the speech rate, but the fact Tom doesn't seem to pause between words the way a human would. A human usually takes a short breath between words, inserting a little pause there, where Tom tends to run it all together. So Climb Up: Up Arrow sounds like one endless string of words or sounds without a proper pause between them. Heather on the other hand is set to the same speech rate, but she pauses between words making it clearer to hear. So I think I might be better off using a different Sapi voice that pauses properly between words.
Cheers! On 6/26/11, Phil Vlasak <p...@pcsgames.net> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > I am just not a fan of Scansoft Tom, as I think the voice is of lesser > quality than some of the others. > I noticed that some of the voices had larger download sizes and most of > the time, the larger the download the clearer the voice sounded to me. > I suspect that some of the voices were either recorded or converted to a > lower bit rate. > Originally they had 8 and 16 bit rates on the voices but recently I noticed > some 24 bit that sounded much clearer. > If you are going to stay with Tom, I do have a few suggestions. > I think the main problem in understanding the voice is that the words are > blended together too much. > You could try increasing the pause between words from the Text Aloud menu. > Or you could add a punctuation mark between some of the words. > In Actions_Selection2.wav > You have him saying > Climb Up: up arrow. > but it sounds like > climb upup parrow. > A colon does not pause the voice as much as a comma does. > I suggest adding commas in between words to make a sentence like this > clearer. > such as, > climb, up, up, arrow. > Phil --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
