Lynn and David,

  I'm glad to learn from  you that we'll still have the same human voices on 
the flash
cartridges and that we'll be able to listen to them fast without raising the 
pitch, though I imagine the digital processing may produce some noticeable 
distortion when the speed is changed.

  As for Eloquence's voice, I too don't like it at its normal speed, but,
sped up, I like it.

  In regard to librarians, I'm delighted to be sent things I'd never think
of searching
for in the NLS catalogue.  I'm overwhelmed by the vast number of things I'd
like to learn about, and I need a
librarian's help to avoid spending more than all my availaable time going
through the NLS catalogue and the useful or wonderful things it surely 
contains.

  --Nelson

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Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] let's really think about this talking book situation


> they will be human voices.  I actually deplore eloq
>
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> Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] let's really think about this talking book
> situation
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>  I don't know whether the flash cartridges that we'll start getting next
> year will
> carry the voices of the same excellent actors we've been hearing in the
> past
> or will
> sound like Eloquence, as produced by JAWS et al.
>
>  For stories involving various characters it's good to hear their words
> read with different voices--something of which
> Eloquence is incapable.
>
>  However, for other sorts of text, it's often nice to speed up the
> reading,
> sometimes making the actors less
> intelligible than Eloquence is at the same speed.
>
>  It would be good to be able to choose between the two sorts of voices.
>
>  --Nelson
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