For those who like Kendra, unless it's just me, that voice is coming to voice dream reader. Winston said more voices are on the way, and I specifically asked about Kendra when I got that response. Mary
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 16, 2014, at 8:26 AM, "Richard Turner" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I'm glad you asked that question. I had no idea until I just did a Google > search that Amazon has purchase Ivona. > Sadly, nothing on the web that I have found identifies the voices used on the > Kindle Fire, other than there is only U.S. and U.K. English voices. > That was from the Amazon Kindle Accessibility help page. > However, Bookshare was very clear. > From the Bookshare web site under formats: > Voicing is provided by the high quality Kendra voice from Ivona, not your > reading tool > > There you go. > > Richard > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Russ Kiehne > Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 7:48 AM > 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 > > Speaking of Ivona, What Ivona tts does bookshare use for there mp3 books? > What Ivona tts is used for the Kindle fire hdx? > I like those very much. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Turner > Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 12:16 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: a comparison of James, the American male voice and Amy, the British > female voice in Voice Dream Reader 3.0 > > > > 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". > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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