I remember those.  I still use and prefer a speak-out for most things. 
For reading I often load up something else.  It is all such a personal 
thing.  i never have liked dec talk that much.
Only the shadow knows.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Sun, 19 May 2013, Russ 
Kiehne wrote:

> I still have a votrax pss.  I don't know if it still works!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Gammon
> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 6:06 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Need opinion
>
> Man, I think it's amazing how ye'all get your nickers in a knott when it
> comes to synthesized speech.  I come from the days of the old external
> speech box made by votrax and I appreciated that.  However, having said
> that, I do appreciate the new higher quality voices but am not partial to
> one over another.    73, Jim WA6EKS
>
> ---Original Message-----
> From: Butch Bussen
> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 5:08 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Need opinion
>
> I like the voice on the book sense much better.  If you're not needing
> small size, I also have a bookport dt (desktop) which has a great text
> to speech.
> 73
> Butch
> WA0VJR
> Node 3148
> Wallace, ks.
>
>
> On Sat, 18 May 2013, Howard Kaufman wrote:
>
>> I hate the stream voice so much, that I take my bookshare books, open them
>> in k1000, and save them with the voice I like, as mp3 files.  Then I play
>> them on the player.  I absolutely love my milestone 312, but I don't think
>> the synthesizer is much better than the stream is.  I think most of the
>> book
>> reader devices, try to sound like voice-over, which is awful if you read
>> at
>> any speed, because it mumbles.
>>
>> Synthesized voice choices are as personal as anything, one is beloved by
>> one
>> person and hated by another.  Personally, the old doubletalk speech is the
>> best.  That's for me, and people here will insist I am as crazy as a loon.
>> Get voice samples of the TTS engines, or do what I do, and convert text to
>> mp3 and play that.
>>
>>
>
>