Concatenative text to speech engines, such as those from Nuance, use
spliced up recordings of actual human readers. Formant text to speech
engines, like Eloquence, do not start with recordings of actual human
readers but instead use an acoustic model. there's a good read of all of
this, including the strengths and weaknesses of the various different
types of speech synthesis at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis
On 10/20/2017 06:14 PM, Flor Lynch wrote:
Eloquence was formed in a time before live human voices in wave form
were recorded by computers and then analysed and so their speech was
spliced up, etc., and made to apply to different contexts. So
Eloquence isn't really a synthesized human voice, in the way that
others (such as the aforebemoaned Alex are said to be). I thought I
was liking Vocaliser Expressive voices (as they work with JAWS) but
became disenchanted with eac one I tried after a few week or few
months' use. (Wrong intonations, off pronunciations, etc.) I like
James enough, though. (He also has a bit too much misplaced intonation
at times!) But if I want a relaxing read of something long, then James
will do. With JAWS, I went back to Eloquence, which I'm using. Its
faults (and it has some bad ones, such as saying 'apostrophe' are
predictable.
My iPhone voice is female and Irish (Moira). JAWS does something to
her voice on the PC so that it doesn't sound as 'pleasant' as on the
iPhone. (Many fellow irish dislike her, preferring instead the UK
Daniel voice. - Me, no.
-----Original Message----- From: Jewel
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 11:21 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Why Does Everyone Like iOS Alex so Much?
I also think that the Eloquence voices are the best, but someone said
something about "humanised"
voices sounding very * weird.
I have to take exception with that statement as I find the aforesaid
eloquence voices to be very
humanised and they do not sound, in the least, weird to me.
Jewel
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From: "K. Scott Carlson" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2017 1:38 AM
To: <[email protected]>; "Larry Lumpkin" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Why Does Everyone Like iOS Alex so Much?
I agree; Eloquence is still my favorite and I haven't found anything to
replace it. I actually find the "human" sounding voices to sound really
weird.
On 10/20/2017 8:37 AM, Larry Lumpkin wrote:
Synthesizer voices are highly subjective and very much a matter of
personal taste. I like
eloquence and wouldn't use another voice if I had a choice and would
do so if IoS offered it but
that is just my personal preference.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of K. Scott Carlson
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 7:33 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Why Does Everyone Like iOS Alex so Much?
The subject pretty much says it all. I've tried using his voice
a number of times, and it
sounds weirdly robotic and muffled to me. Not appealing at all. What
is the appeal for people,
since it was such a big deal when it was added?
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