Re: [Audyssey] Hi Dark
it depends on what you were brought up on. I only got into human speech in 2001 I was brought up firstly with the keynote gold, then the gemini, then orpheus1. I have been able to stand espeak for ages and actually like it over some human sounding systems, but then its the background. Dos was the only system I had for the first 5 years. then windows 9x for about 8 years still on the same setup. I never got into real voices till 2008. And it was only through fortune of getting someone's jaws8 realspeak image that I even bothered with human voices at all. Its doubtfull that I will ever get lagit voices since I don't really care but if I ever buy it will be the english, us and au and maybe uk ivonas 100 for each pack, english uk and us which supports nvda so 200. I may also get a japanese voice for some games to. But thats a major if now. At 01:35 a.m. 24/01/2012 -0500, you wrote: That's definitely unusual. In my case listening to some of the synthetic voices for a long stretch drives me up the wall. The less human the voice like Eloquence or ESpeak the more irritating I find it. I guess I've adapted to Eloquence and ESpeak, as I use them all the time with NVDA, but the more human voices like the ATT voices are definitely preferable in terms of human quality. I find games that use human voices for menus, status messages, much better. On 1/23/12, Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net wrote: I don't know, for some reason hearing the same human speech over and over in a game bothers me. But hearing the same sapi5 voice over and over does not. Now if I had sight and saw a human on the screen, I would expect to hear human speech. But when I had sight, nothing on the screen looked anything like a human. BFN Jim The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some darned good ideas! j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Hi Dark
HI, If you can get use to a Keynote you can pretty much listen to anything after that. Lol! I had a multilingual Keynote for high school and college because at the time it was the most accurate when it came to doing French and English. The multilingual Braille N' Speaks slottered the languages and Eloquence wasn't yet a part of Jaws. So the Keynote was the best solution at the time for foreign languages, but the voice was definitely unique. To say the least unless I was working on French class that thing sat on a shelf unused and I pretty much used a Dectalk Express 24/7. It was probably the most human sounding hardware synth on the market back in the 90's. On 1/24/12, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: it depends on what you were brought up on. I only got into human speech in 2001 I was brought up firstly with the keynote gold, then the gemini, then orpheus1. I have been able to stand espeak for ages and actually like it over some human sounding systems, but then its the background. Dos was the only system I had for the first 5 years. then windows 9x for about 8 years still on the same setup. I never got into real voices till 2008. And it was only through fortune of getting someone's jaws8 realspeak image that I even bothered with human voices at all. Its doubtfull that I will ever get lagit voices since I don't really care but if I ever buy it will be the english, us and au and maybe uk ivonas 100 for each pack, english uk and us which supports nvda so 200. I may also get a japanese voice for some games to. But thats a major if now. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] Hi Dark
I don't know, for some reason hearing the same human speech over and over in a game bothers me. But hearing the same sapi5 voice over and over does not. Now if I had sight and saw a human on the screen, I would expect to hear human speech. But when I had sight, nothing on the screen looked anything like a human. BFN Jim The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some darned good ideas! j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Hi Dark
Hi jim. Well i suppose if you've sort of got a mental picture of games with 80's graphics even when your making audio games that makes sense, however for myself sinse audio games don't have graphics, I don't think of them as graphical, - well there are my coloured synaesthesic impressions of in game objects, but that's a little different. Just as ytou wouldn't have a synth voice playing a human character in an audio drama, to me the same rule applies in a game. For status info, game menues etc synth is fine, sinse that's just extra info, but for atmosphere and characterization I'd always go with a human. In fact Jim this is sort of what you did in your games featuring homer simpson. You've stuck in phrases like you dbig dumb balling ape etc, to make the character realistic, where as you've stuck to sapi just for things like in game instructions and data, even if you didn't do this for some of your other titles. Hope this makes sense. Eitherway it does seem a shame to me to miss out on a game because it uses synths or sapi, and I'd certainly not refrain from playing a game just because of that. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net To: dark Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 9:45 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Hi Dark I don't know, for some reason hearing the same human speech over and over in a game bothers me. But hearing the same sapi5 voice over and over does not. Now if I had sight and saw a human on the screen, I would expect to hear human speech. But when I had sight, nothing on the screen looked anything like a human. BFN Jim The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some darned good ideas! j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Hi Dark
That's definitely unusual. In my case listening to some of the synthetic voices for a long stretch drives me up the wall. The less human the voice like Eloquence or ESpeak the more irritating I find it. I guess I've adapted to Eloquence and ESpeak, as I use them all the time with NVDA, but the more human voices like the ATT voices are definitely preferable in terms of human quality. I find games that use human voices for menus, status messages, much better. On 1/23/12, Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net wrote: I don't know, for some reason hearing the same human speech over and over in a game bothers me. But hearing the same sapi5 voice over and over does not. Now if I had sight and saw a human on the screen, I would expect to hear human speech. But when I had sight, nothing on the screen looked anything like a human. BFN Jim The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some darned good ideas! j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
