Oh, really, Alex? This indeed confirms how much different one's perception
of synthetic speech can bee! I haven't tried Kendra in Voice Dream Reader
yet but can't wait to do so, because on PC, with NVDA and with Balabolka, it
has always been my all-time favourite English-speaking voice, especially for
books, I've made myself quite a lot of mp3s by Balabolka using Kendra,
smile!
I'm not English native speaker, maybe this has an impact on my perception,
not sure about it though, for me Kendra sounds very pleasant, not
high-pitched like so many other female voices.
Kind regards,
Barbara
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From: Alex Hall
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 11:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: a comparison of James, the American male voice and Amy, the
British female voice in Voice Dream Reader 3.0
A lot of the Ivona voices aren't great; Sally is good, and the Birtish male
is good. Kendra is horrible, though, and Joey annoys me after a while. That
said, overall the good Ivona voices still have the others beat, I think.
Again, synthesized speech is one of the most subjective things we could
discuss, so I guess it comes down to this: whichever you prefer, VDR now
offers four voice manufacturers to pick from. The other Daisy app on iOS
offers only one, and other self-voicing apps similarly lack choices. No
matter how you slice it, you are more likely by far to find a voice you like
in VDR than any other app.
On Mar 15, 2014, at 6:02 PM, Gmail <[email protected]> wrote:
This is probably just me, but I think most of the Ivona voices sound super
flat. I like the Neospeech voices much better, except for Paul. I don't know
why, but I can't stand him for some reason.
Thanks,
Ari
On Mar 15, 2014, at 12:16 PM, "Richard Turner" <[email protected]>
wrote:
If you are easily offended by a rood statement concerning shoving an object
in a certain place, don’t bother reading.
I recorded a humorous item that some may have seen floating around the
internet using Voice Dream Reader.
I did it to show the qualitative difference not only in the Amy voice from
Ivona, but the way it handles the text.
I had thought James was the best voice in a long time, but Amy blows him
away. I have not yet decided if I am going to purchase the Joey voice from
Ivona.
The Ivona voices are $4.99, but at least, in my opinion, Amy is worth it.
James reads the below text first, then Amy.
Here is a link to the recording, which is 1 minute 37 seconds in length.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/41698889/WeAllKnowThisFeeling.mp3
Here is the actual text if you want to read it in braille or compare with
other voices:
We all know this feeling....
"Please create your password below:"
roses
"Sorry, too few characters."
pretty roses
"Sorry, you must use at least one numerical character."
1 pretty rose
"Sorry, you cannot use blank spaces."
1prettyrose
"Sorry, you must use at least 10 different characters."
1friggingprettyrose
"Sorry, you must use at least one upper case character."
1FRIGGINGprettyrose
"Sorry, you cannot use more than one upper case character consecutively."
1FriggingPrettyRose
"Sorry, you must use no fewer than 20 total characters."
1FrigginggPrettyRoseShovedUpYourAssIfYouDon'tGiveMeAccessRightNow!
"Sorry, you cannot use punctuation."
1FriggingPrettyRoseShovedUpYourAssIfYouDontGiveMeAccessRightNow
"Sorry, that password is already in use".
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