Absolutely! I want to say that while I have found things that could use
improvement, not only with the speech synthesis, but with other things, I
have had my Book Sense for nearly eight months now and I use it every day.
(I sometimes ask myself how many pushes these buttons are good for before
they wear out.) I really like it a lot. I use it for music, NLS and RFB&D
books, and making recordings. I think it's a great little device and the
money I paid for it was very well spent.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dianne B. Phelps" <[email protected]>
To: "'Robert C'" <[email protected]>; "'Russ Kiehne'" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 3:51 PM
Subject: RE: [GW-Booksense] new voices for the booksense?
This is true, Robert. We live in a time where we do have choices unlike
the
old days with the heavy record players and heavy boxes of books on
records.
Who would have thought we would have had what we do now. None of it is
20/20, but I will take what it does do and am thrilled with it.
Dianne
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert C [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 9:12 AM
To: Russ Kiehne; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] new voices for the booksense?
Excatly. Its fascinating the wide range of opinions on this subject.
We can vener be satisfied, can we? ;) Even if there was such a device
that
met ALL the needs of any one individual, it still would be missing on some
points. Here is the bottom line. We do have a wide range of products to
choose from. Pick and choose and be happy for where would we be without
the
technology today?
Quote of the nanosecond. . .
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Robert & Dreamer Doll ke7nwn
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Kiehne" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 8:33 AM
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.
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