Hello, Oh i still know quite a few people that use the old hal voices in windows because others are just not fast enough, i myself just really hate them though. I have not used infovox in the past because in the past it had a Dutch voice which i absolutely did not like (this was before the current ones) it is still included in some dutch equipment. I just visited the ivox page today though and I like the new Flemish voice Jeroen (flemish and Dutch are not THAT different). I also visited the other site that nicolai gave me and I really liked one of their british female voices although in all honesty i do think ivox is better. I must really say though that Alex reminds me of TOm in windows just as mellow and relaxed, cool cat from the states. Alex is non-fatiguing and I can use him for a long timeI just love the british accent so if I can switch to that... Greetings, Anouk On Nov 5, 2009, at 12:35 AM, erik burggraaf wrote:
> > The problem with orpheous as I remember, well there were a couple of > problems actually. The compression was just ruthlessly bad, and there > was an insane amount of bass on them. I'd never heard a synthesizer > so boomie. I know some people who really liked them, and now maybe > they've improved since the days of hal 4.2 when I used it, but you're > right, they would leave a bad impression on any first time synthesizer > user. > > Did you try infovox? I have Ryan on my phone and I think he's really > great, but the pronounciation was deplorable on leopard, and I just > didn't have the time to write a whole new phoneem dictionary so I > could figure out what my computer was saying. I'd like to try it > again on sl though, since it's possible they've improved it. cepstril > has some pretty good voices too. Not good enough to where I'd want to > pay for them, but still, far from terrible. > > Best, > > erik burggraaf > A+ certified technician and user support consultant. > Phone: 888-255-5194 > Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com > > On 2009-11-04, at 2:23 PM, anouk radix wrote: > >> >> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
