Hi Tom.
This is very true, and in fact the reason I use orphius alan for Hal but
realspeak daniel for sapi, even though Hal does have the daniel voice as
under voacalizer, it is just too laggy.
The only problem is that as far as screen readers go, someone trying a
screen reading program for the first time whether that is Hal, Jaws or
whatever, will not know that problems with lag or lack of speed are due to
the voice and not the program.
This came up quite recently. The lady who is training her guide dog at the
same time I am worked very seriously in It before losing her site four years
ago, so has a pretty major typing speed.
she said she'd tried Hal and jaws, but used jaws because she found Hal
laggy, yet when I explained this was because Hal runs with the vocalizer
daniel voice by default and showed her the speed of Orphius, she was most
surprised, ----- I have in fact informed dolphin of this as well, but they
just see the higher voice quality making the difference and ignore the lag
issues.
I might actually suggest they put a warning somewhere in the setup wizard,
just to let people know that the voice reaction speed of Vocalizer isn't the
fault of the supernova program but of the voice.
I must confess, I stil! don't see why they didn't stick with the orphius
natural voices. The orphius synthetic ones are pretty dire, but the natural
ones like Alan, Carol, Brad and Lucy are a really nice compromise betwene
quality and speed.
You can stil download them from Dolphin, but now they don't even ship with
supernova by default for some reason.
Beware the grue!
dark.
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