I downloaded one of the Grimm related novels from BookShare. One of the
characters is named Whu (believe that's the spelling). For whatever reason
no voice I tried regardless of group of voice could handle the name and the
reading of that writing style was unlistenable.
I tried to follow the punctuation but couldn't get the VDR to read the
characters and punctuation so I could follow it. I'm not making a comment
on the voices or the software. It's probably my lack of proficiency in
handling the software that got in the way of my figuring out what was
causing the problem with the reading in general.
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From: "Wayne Merritt" <wcmerr...@gmail.com>
To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2016 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: Another good Voice Dream Reader voice.
I really haven't gotten into different voices, figuring that I can
adjust to most anything, and that different voices are very subjective
to each person listening and what they like or don't like. However,
with this discussion, I went back and browsed through all the
available voices; wow! I ended up getting James, and after my wife
heard him, she was very surprised that it was a TTS voice and not
someone speaking. She liked Sally the best. So now I've got some
choice when I want to read files or BookShare books. BTW, thanks to
the people that have pointed out that BookShare is very easy to browse
and download from, I never realized. I just might extend my BookShare
membership on that fact alone, grin.
Wayne
On 7/8/16, englishride...@gmail.com <englishride...@gmail.com> wrote:
My biggest problem with most Acapela and Ivona voices is that they kind
of
have this weird up-and-down internation in the middle of words. It's very
sudden and jerky-sounding to me, and sort of sounds like the voice was
put
through auto tuning. All the NeoSpeech voices sound a lot smoother when
they
speak, at least in my oppinion. However, this is why we have choice, and
it's great to see so many options in Voice Dream Reader.
Thanks,
Ari
On Jul 7, 2016, at 6:20 PM, Richard Turner <richardturne...@outlook.com>
wrote:
My personal favorite is Amy from Ivona which I usually have set at 375
or
395, depending on what I'm reading.
Richard
(From a poster of a church cemetery)
When you are dead, you don't know that you are dead. It is difficult
only
for the others.
It's the same when you are stupid.
(Sent from my iPhone 5S)
On Jul 7, 2016, at 10:50 AM, englishride...@gmail.com wrote:
Besides Kate and James, I'm really starting to like Ashley from
NeoSpeech. I have her set to read at 255 words per minute, just like
Kate
and James, both also from NeoSpeech, but I have her pitch set at 120. I
also sometimes use Bridget from NeoSpeech on occasion, but I have her
left at defaults, other than altering her words per minute, also set at
255.
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