Hello Erik maybe this is because i did not use speechoften but non- human sounding voices really distract me. Once in a while when i was using windows my braille display gave out and I had to do a week with just speech, naturally i still had to learn stuff for school but it just did not stick when only using speech as it does when i read it in braille and it is just etched in my brain. I have the seem with lectures though, if i dont make notes then i can as well not go. I dont have this problem with literature. I must note though that at the time I only had the horrible hal voices (orpheus) sure they were fast but they gave me a splitting headache. The only voices that I liked in windows were tom and daniel (i think they are both realspeak or nextup whatever the difference is). Greetings, Anouk On Nov 4, 2009, at 6:06 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
> > Hum. Voices are such a matter of preference, but personally I thing > realspeak is attrotious and I try to get my clients off of it as soon > as I can. Elloquence is pretty horrible too. Dektalk is not bad but > it's fallen a long way from the old hardware days. Alex runs a little > faster in sl than than he did in leopard, and so he's tollerable now. > Fred's better. I'm kind'a happy with espeak even though every one > else hates it. > > For me though it comes down to speed and stability, and as long as it > pronounces things properly I don't really care if it doesn't sound > anything like a human voice. > > Best, > > erik burggraaf > A+ certified technician and user support consultant. > Phone: 888-255-5194 > Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com > > On 2009-11-04, at 11:56 AM, anouk radix wrote: > >> >> Hello I got this question from another Dutch blind person who has the >> iphone. He is wondering why the realspeak voices are not also >> available for the mac like the accapella ones are sincethe operating >> system on the iphone is like os x? Anybody know if realspeak voices >> will be available for the mac? Apparently realspeak claire is used a >> lot on dutch windows systems by blind people. >> Greetings, Anouk >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
