IMHO, one's choice of a speech synthesizer comes down to personal
preference. I use Eloquence, Samantha, Google TTS and eSpeak. I feel the
most efficient and productive with eSpeak. I don't see why you have to
deny me the speech synthesizer I want to use just because you prefer
another. I seriously doubt development on Eloquence or eSpeak is taking
resources away from whatever speech synthesizer you prefer.
On 10/09/2015 11:17 AM, Mary Otten wrote:
True about Esperanto. Then again, I don't know any Esperanto speakers. In fact,
it is a made up language of sorts. So no one speaks at natively. Not high on
the to do list, I shouldn't think. However, more language support is a great
thing, and other speech companies are making strides in that direction. I did
actually try e-speak Russian and found it totally unusable, absolutely
horrible. And I have used Russian as a translator for a long long time. I
suppose it works for native speakers, if they have no other access, and that is
a good thing. But what I would like to see is more work and more languages buy
more intelligible speech synthesizer's. Let's not rely on old old difficult to
understand robotic technology when we have much better at our disposal and the
computer power to use it.
Mary
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On Oct 8, 2015, at 8:28 PM, Devin Prater <r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, but eSpeak's language support is better than any other speech system out
there today. Not even Vocalizer has an Esperanto voice.
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On Oct 8, 2015, at 10:21 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, voices have come along way. That is precisely why I will never ever use
e-speak. Back in the 1980s, that sounded better than espeak. that I know it's a
personal preference deal. Bute-speak for reading for pleasure? Not in this
lifetime.
Mary
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On Oct 8, 2015, at 7:58 PM, Devin Prater <r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, I don't think the Ivona voices were all that good anyways. Just my
oppinion, but speech synthesis has gone a ways, and has less wildly varying
entonation. But sure, Voicedream may lose some voices, but they still have
Acapella Sharan up their sleeve, and could easily add eSpeak and other voices
to compensate.
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On Oct 7, 2015, at 2:35 AM, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote:
Hi all. I've tried Ivona's voices for Windows and therefore I'm on their
newsletter. I just got an email from them. It sounds like they might be
folding. I'll paste an excerpt of the email below but one has to wonder. Will
Voice Dream be affected? I don't have any Ivona voices, but if I do consider
buying them in the future, will I be SOL if I don't buy them by December 31?
Dear IVONA Customer,
Please be informed, that starting from 31st of December 2015 IVONA will no
longer be providing support services for the following products for customers:
• IVONA Voices
• IVONA 2 Voices
• IVONA Reader/IVONA MiniReader/IVONA Control Center
• Expressivo
• Accessibility package
This includes recovery of activation keys and installation files as well as
software updates and customer support from the IVONA support team.
Shawn
Sent From My White MacBook
Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs
Skype username: bbstheblindrapper
Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com
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