well would you believe I think that the Dec_talk is still the best 
over all for novels, and I do love the DoubleTalk as well similarly.


At 03:08 PM 05/18/13, you 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.