I also had Elliquence on my Braille Note M Power, but got tired of carrying the Braille Note around. Then, I used the Voice sense to carry books around which was all right in its own way, and if I travel or need to take notes where I don't wish to take my laptop, I will pile the Voice Sense into my purse because it is small. In fact, I should sit down with that and work with it because I haven't been using it very much lately, and you do forget how when you don't stay with it.
Dianne -----Original Message----- From: Russ Kiehne [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 8:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] new voices for the booksense? Well, there is an option for those of you who want Eloquence. It's called the Icon or Braille plus. ----- Original Message ----- From: "EVAN REESE" <[email protected]> To: "GW-micro" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 8:26 AM Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] new voices for the booksense? > Well, that just goes to show that people have different preferences, and > that's fine. My girlfriend started out reading books from Bookshare on her > Book Sense, first with Kate, then with Paul. But she quit after a few > books, saying that if she was going to listen to audio books with > synthesised speech, she would rather listen to her JAWS with Eloquence > instead of Kate or Paul. She does a lot of proofreading for Bookshare on > her PC, so she has definitely gotten accustomed to, and even to like, > Eloquence and doesn't read anything nonhuman-read on her Book Sense > anymore. > > By the way, I misspoke earlier: I should have said that the pitch of the > Book Sense jumps around even within individual syllables, not within > individual words. It's natural for pitch to jump around within words. The > description I was looking for last night of how Paul sounds to me came to > me after I posted my last message. He reminds me of a tape with a good > deal of wow and flutter in it. That makes him harder to understand at > higher rates of speech where the smoother Eloquence is still intelligible. > > As to resources, I thought the Kate and Paul voices were more resource > intensive than Eloquence, although I may be misremembering something here. > > Evan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Missy Hoppe" <[email protected]> > To: "Booksense Support" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 7:20 AM > Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] new voices for the booksense? > > >> very well said. The speech on the Booksense is about as pleasant as a tts >> voice can be, but I'm still one of those who, given the choice, prefers >> human narrators whenever possible. I don't understand all the praise for >> eloquence, though. I use it on my computer due to high speeds and being >> responsive, but for a reading device like the booksense, it definitely >> wouldn't be my first choice. As great as it is, it just sounds to >> mechanical for pleasure reading. Still, for my main computer, it's the >> only realistic option for daily use, and since I've been reading a lot of >> fan fiction lately, I've somewhat gotten used to the way eloquence reads, >> but I'd still never want it for the booksense. >> Just my opinion, of course. >> Missy >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dianne B. Phelps" <[email protected]> >> To: "'EVAN REESE'" <[email protected]>; "'GW-micro'" >> <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 12:33 AM >> Subject: RE: [GW-Booksense] new voices for the booksense? >> >> >> 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. 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