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.
>
>