This is why speech is so subjective. I can't stand eloquence. yes it is a clear synth, but there's just some things I don't like. Personally give me tripletalk hardware speech any day. (smile) Chris On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:38:06 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I agree wholeheartedly. > >Gail > >I have to echo the thoughts expressed here, to the degree that I too believe >that eloquence tends to be quite idiosyncratic. I would never in a million >years refer to it as anything approaching "rock solid." At best, it's >glitchy. But then we have DecTalk. More reliable, maybe. But am I going to >listen to those voices all day? Not on your life. >If I were running the GW ship, I would at least consider offering a synth >that is still evolving and improving just as Window-eyes is. To be fair, >perhaps they have considered other options and have rejected them for one >reason or another. 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Before sending us your >media, please contact us for important shipping instructions. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Curtis Delzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >To: "Window-Eyes discussion list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >(mailto:[email protected]) > >Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 1:54 AM >Subject: windows problem ... on laptop. with Eloquence. >the computer is: a >Dell - Inspiron Laptop with Intel® Core"2 Duo >Processor T5750 - Jet Black Model: I1525-122B >and here's what happens. Run Dec_access32, load >Window-eyes or let the computer load, all ok. >Unload Window-Eyes, goes away ok, load Window-eyes, all comes back talking. >Now change to ... Eloquence. >Computer loads WE, all ok, unload WE, all goes >away, load WE, ... wait ... wait some more ... >some more, ... wait, and wait, and ... nothing, >though WE is loaded, nothing speaks. >Eloquence, and Vista, seems to me they don't get >along since that synthesizer was initially >designed with sapi 4 in mind, and here it is ten >years or so later and yet, why is Dec_access32 so >responsive and accurate with Vista and not good ole Eloquence? >With all the issues, I know hind sight is 2020, >but seems to me a better synthesizer could have >been picked than this troublesome one. >Window-Eyes and Eloquence have always had issues, >that unwanted pausing so often complained about >and nothing done by the maker of Eloquence, since >they're so much smarter than all of day to day >listeners who have to deal with it's >idiosyncrasy, so our opinion doesn't count at >all, so they have a dead synthesizer on their >hands and so do we, since now, Window-Eyes, supports it as native. >Should have picked a better one guys, spend a >couple bux and invest time and effort instead of >that dead one which is not being developed at >all, and has issues with words crashing it, >unpredictable crashes without any cause at all >but traced to it, and on it goes. >Popular, yes, because it was promulgated so much >when it was not complicated to use our computers, >as complicated as it is today, so the smaller >foot print or at least the dependability of >Dec_access32 demonstrates itself time and time >again. 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