Phone systems are based on recorded and digitized human voices. They have limited vocabularies and require a good bit of processing power to pull off. If you want your speech to be able to pronounce any word, such systems just don't cut it.
Now, why gw-micro would want to jump in and be the third in the market of book readers, that one is beyond me. I'd much rather see bug fixes in window-eyes. On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:01:02 -0600, you wrote: >It's sad when some of the phone auto sestem sounds better then our >voices; and yet, they want to charge us so much. > > >At 03/21/2009, Mary Otten wrote: >>On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:58:08 -0400, Jeremy Curry wrote: >> >> >1. Voice Text from Voiceware >> >> >>I'm sorry to hear that. I don't think any of the so-called high quality >>voices are all they are cracked up to be, and because they try to sound >>human, when they fall down, they're awful. Maybe its psychological. But >>despite the fact that these voices can sound good when things are just >>right, that condition seldom prevails, and a wanna-be human is much >>worse than a more mechanical sounding synthesizer with known but >>consistent flaws. So I'm sorry that there won't be an alternative such >>as a tripple talk chip or even Eloquence. I know that the choice of >>speech synthesizers is a personal matter. So I hope that once this >>product is out, some consideration will be given to adding >>alternatives, although obviously, the hardware approach won't be >>possible. Too bad, as hardware like the trippletalk is still the >>snappiest, most responsive speech out there. >> >>Mary >> >>If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original >>sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and >>your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending >>your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. >> >>All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, >>and can be searched through and sorted using the search >>form at the bottom of the page. >> >>If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to >>[email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body >>of the message. >> >> >>No virus found in this incoming message. >>Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.11.22/2015 - Release Date: >>03/20/09 19:01:00 > > >If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original >sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and >your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending >your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > >All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be >searched through and sorted using the search >form at the bottom of the page. > >If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to >[email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body >of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
