well I have plans when I upgrade to buy the us and uk versions as one
200 buck package.
Eventually.
At 03:10 p.m. 1/11/2011 +0000, you wrote:
Hi Michael.
Vocalizer has been an inbuilt option in Supernova (Hal), sinse
version 12, and I can't say i've noticed any appreciable difference
betwene that version of scansoft daniel and the realspeak one,
though I am not sure about other voices.
i actually stil use the Dolphin orphius voice alan with hal, because
I find any encarnation of the realspeak voices not to respond
quickly enough to my typing speed. Only eloquence and orphius can
catch up, and the natural sounding English voice alan available from
dolphin's site I find far more preferable to eloquence or orphius
synths, thus being the perfect compromise betwene understandability
and responsiveness.
Back to realspeak though, those prices are horrible! considdering
seerprock and other freely available voices that run with sapi are
only about 30 dollars each, I have to wonder what the company is
playing at. Ever sinse they started this proprietorial nonsense I've
very rapidly lost any respect I had for them in the first place.
All I can see this doing is absolutely insuring that people will go
to other companies like seerprock or kepstral for sapi voices,
though sinse that's pretty much been happening ever sinse scansoft
stopped selling freely useable voices it actually doesn't make as
much difference.
If they want to shoot their business in the foot, ---- well let
them, it's not as if we don't have other options afterall.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Gauler" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] USA Games News
Hi Thomas,
I don't know if you are aware of this, but there might be several
problems coming the way of all JAWS and RealSpeak Direct users.
Unfortunately no one in that the Speech Market except Ivona seems
to be willing to give apropriate information about their products.
I'll post this here in public, so that all people know of this,
since the talk on games and speech engines has already started.
First of all Nuance/Scansoft has developed several new voices. Some
of them being in new languages and other ones give more choices for
existing languages.
First of all, the new voices are not named RealSpeak, but Vocalizer 5.
The only company who does sell the new voices to end users is Koba Vision.
There you have to pay more than $300 for two voices of your liking.
However there are two problems with the new product. First of all,
It seems that the new engine might not be totally stable, but this
might have been fixed by now.
But the more important issue is that the new distribution of voices
seems to be of lesser quality than the RealSpeak Direct voices.
The next thing you should know is that the new Scansoft voices
haven't been made available to JAWS users up to now (the reason is unknown).
Furthermore, the new voices can't be purchased from nextup.com for
TextAloud, either.
And the last piece of news is that Nuance and Loquendo are
effectively becoming one company now and that again no one knows
what this means for the individual products of both companies and
for general availability of said products...
That's it, more information seems to be unavailable.
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