The problem with orpheous as I remember, well there were a couple of problems actually. The compression was just ruthlessly bad, and there was an insane amount of bass on them. I'd never heard a synthesizer so boomie. I know some people who really liked them, and now maybe they've improved since the days of hal 4.2 when I used it, but you're right, they would leave a bad impression on any first time synthesizer user.
Did you try infovox? I have Ryan on my phone and I think he's really great, but the pronounciation was deplorable on leopard, and I just didn't have the time to write a whole new phoneem dictionary so I could figure out what my computer was saying. I'd like to try it again on sl though, since it's possible they've improved it. cepstril has some pretty good voices too. Not good enough to where I'd want to pay for them, but still, far from terrible. Best, erik burggraaf A+ certified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: [email protected] On 2009-11-04, at 2:23 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
