Howard, you must be as crazy as a loon.
The Other Howard, WA9RYF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: Need opinion


>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.