That sounds plausible except that eloquence has been the synth on cell phone screen readers since 2004. It really isn't that big. I wonder if there are more legal or technical reasons that it is not being made available. One technical reason (which doesn't stop people from using it anyway) is that there are sequences of characters that cause eloquence to hang and crash the program and sometimes the system. I tried some of the ones I know about on my cell phone with talks and with jaws and indeed it is true. And they have been known for a while but not fixed. As for legalities, the competition over ownership of software makes using eloquence a potential difficulty business wise. Case in point: Nuance, who makes talks, also owns eloquence and the competing cell phone screen reader mobilespeak, began using eloquence as an optional synth. Most people used it in fact. However, Nuance made changes to eloquence that caused it to trip up mobilespeak so CodeFactory (who develop mobilespeak) eventually dropped support for eloquence.
In short, the devil is in the details. I have no problem with Kate and Paul (I prefer Kate for some reason) except that they get choppy and hard to understand at higher speeds. So that's my thought, take it or leave it. Happy reading. --le ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dianne B. Phelps" <[email protected]> To: "'EVAN REESE'" <[email protected]>; "'GW-micro'" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 11:33 PM 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. 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
