You can also hear a demo of Samantha at the following link
http://tech.aph.org/bt_image/sam0.mp3
----- Original Message -----
From: "Missy Hoppe" <[email protected]>
To: "Booksense Support" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 3:30 AM
Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] new voices for the booksense?
some people really like Samantha, but to me, she sounds like a chain smoker
and just.... evil! It's hard to explain. You might hear her and like her
just fine. She's the voice on the Ipod and Iphone, as well as the victor.
You can probably hear a sample on the nextup.com website or even freedom
scientific under the realspeak solo direct voices. Unfortunately, that
wouldn't necessarily portray the horror that is Samantha since she doesn't
sound quite as scary for the pc as she does on mobile devices like cell
phones and the victor. Like I said, though, it's subjective, but she's
definitely one of those voices that either you will love or hate; dont'
think there's much middle ground with Samantha.
Missy
----- Original Message -----
From: "qubit" <[email protected]>
To: "Missy Hoppe" <[email protected]>; "Booksense Support"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] new voices for the booksense?
I am getting curious about this samantha character... what does she sound
like? evilly seductive? threatening and angry? lol
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: "Missy Hoppe" <[email protected]>
To: "Booksense Support" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] new voices for the booksense?
I couldn't agree more about Samantha. She scares me... badly! In fact, that
was 1 of the many reasons I got rid of the Victor and got the booksense. I
try to avoid Samantha at all costs; even my mom and dad's GPS uses samantha,
and it makes me cringe. She just sounds evil to me.
But, as you said, everyone has different preferences when it comes to text
to speech voices. Over all, I'm extremely happy with Kate and Paul; I don't
notice any significant mispronunciations, although I almost never read with
TTS voices unless I've got no other option.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] new voices for the booksense?
The thing is, voices are always subjective. No one will ever win the
voice war, just like no one wins the Coke/Pepsi war even though Coke is
better, *smile*.
I personally didn't care for Samantha because Samantha sounds like she's
about to strangle you from her anger as she's reading. I don't want to
be reading a text file in fear that my voice will turn on me.
Many thanks.
On 5/1/2010 9:57 PM, Debbie Crafts wrote:
One of the factors which made me decide I had to have a Booksense was Kate
and Paul--they are by far the best voices I have heard on any portable
player. I certainly couldn't listen to Samantha read a novel to me for any
period of time, but with these voices, it's a pleasure.
-----Original Message-----
From: Karly Prinds [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 7:57 PM
To: Terri Pannett; Dianne B. Phelps
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] new voices for the booksense?
I personally think the voices on the BookSense are refreshing, they are
great.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terri Pannett" <[email protected]>
To: "Dianne B. Phelps" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 6:48 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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