Hi, I prefer Samantha from RealSpeak. Tom and Daniel are both RealSpeak. I think I like Samantha because it's the same as on the iPhone, though. :). I like her just in general, on a serious note.
I definitely have to agree with Anouk. I prefer a human-sounding voice for sure, and it makes it more pleasant to listen to if you don't feel like dragging a braille display along during your travels if you convert text to audio. Although, if I have to read something aloud at university, I'd prefer a braille display for obvious reasons, as reading aloud what you hear is kind of distracting. Or just a simple book on occasion. Yep. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: [email protected] AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Nov 4, 2009, at 8:23 PM, anouk radix wrote: > > Hello Erik maybe this is because i did not use speechoften but non- > human sounding voices really distract me. Once in a while when i was > using windows my braille display gave out and I had to do a week with > just speech, naturally i still had to learn stuff for school but it > just did not stick when only using speech as it does when i read it in > braille and it is just etched in my brain. I have the seem with > lectures though, if i dont make notes then i can as well not go. I > dont have this problem with literature. I must note though that at the > time I only had the horrible hal voices (orpheus) sure they were fast > but they gave me a splitting headache. The only voices that I liked in > windows were tom and daniel (i think they are both realspeak or nextup > whatever the difference is). > Greetings, Anouk > On Nov 4, 2009, at 6:06 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > >> >> Hum. Voices are such a matter of preference, but personally I thing >> realspeak is attrotious and I try to get my clients off of it as soon >> as I can. Elloquence is pretty horrible too. Dektalk is not bad but >> it's fallen a long way from the old hardware days. Alex runs a >> little >> faster in sl than than he did in leopard, and so he's tollerable now. >> Fred's better. I'm kind'a happy with espeak even though every one >> else hates it. >> >> For me though it comes down to speed and stability, and as long as it >> pronounces things properly I don't really care if it doesn't sound >> anything like a human voice. >> >> Best, >> >> erik burggraaf >> A+ certified technician and user support consultant. >> Phone: 888-255-5194 >> Email: [email protected] >> >> On 2009-11-04, at 11:56 AM, anouk radix wrote: >> >>> >>> Hello I got this question from another Dutch blind person who has >>> the >>> iphone. He is wondering why the realspeak voices are not also >>> available for the mac like the accapella ones are sincethe operating >>> system on the iphone is like os x? Anybody know if realspeak voices >>> will be available for the mac? Apparently realspeak claire is used a >>> lot on dutch windows systems by blind people. >>> Greetings, Anouk >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
