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Re: Off topic: digital talking books
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don bishop <[log in to unmask]>
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don bishop <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:55:25 -0700
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No, they are read by live people.  Some are converted from masters 
of books previously recorded and released on casette.  The voice 
quality is extremely good.

They are converting about 10,000 books from casette and the rest are 
new nls books apparently.

Don W6SMB


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: Off topic: digital talking books


> Are these books read by people like books we get now, or are they 
> just
> text converted to synthetic speech?
> 73s
> Butch Bussen
> wa0vjr
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