I think the reason we don't see something like Elliquence is that there is only so much memory to hold what is necessary to generate speech and sounds on a divice the size of the Book Sense. After my disappointment with the Victor Reader stream, I am amazed the Book Sense is as good as it is.
Having said that, there are people among us who simply are not comfortable reading with the speech synthesizer. Two of my friends, people I have known for many years, simply won't tolerate anything that isn't human narrated, and that's ok. Reading needs to be something comfortable and as long as there are choices, there is certainly nothing wrong with opting for digitally recorded material rather than speech synthesis. Dianne -----Original Message----- From: EVAN REESE [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 6:22 PM To: GW-micro Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] new voices for the booksense? True, human readers mispronounce things, but my Window Eyes with Eloquence mispronounces a lot less than the voice on my Book Sense. I wish they would have just installed Eloquence on the Book Sense. It's very understandable at high rates of speech and it has substantially better pronunciation than what's in there now. Evan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terri Pannett" <[email protected]> To: "Dianne B. Phelps" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 7:48 PM Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] new voices for the booksense? > Don't change the voices! They're great! > > They mispronounce words, but so do human readers! A human reader should > know better, but some people never learned phoenics. > > Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is > related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your > message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > To manage your subscription to gw-booksense, visit: > > http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. To manage your subscription to gw-booksense, visit: http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. To manage your subscription to gw-booksense, visit: http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv
