Hello,
Personally, I did not like the Text-to-speech materials I have read on a Victor Stream.
I do not mind reading materials on my Braille Sense with text-to-speech but if I read to read a good book I would rather have it in A Human Voice.
Text-to-speech isn't exactly good for reading something which is written in a dialect or something requiring Good Expression.
That is probably why I do not like Voicever.
Colleen Roth
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From: Jim Gammon <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Saturday, May 18, 2013 9:07 pm
Subject: Re: Need opinion
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> 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
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> Subject: Re: Need opinion
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> 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.
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>
> 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.
> >
> >
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