I year yah. For me though there's not much comparison between tom and Alex. Tom is choppy. All of those realspeak voices are. He's also slow, and I mean really slow. He's farely comfortable to listen to, but it's very hard to tell when he speaks the difference between d and t, b and p, and some other things. I think they may have tried to make him sound a bit more hip than he needed to be. Samantha isn't nice to hear at all. To me she sounds like a heavy smoker and her inflection is just bad. Given the choice between the two, I'd take tom any day. I just think alex has way better pronounsiation, especially in sl. I'm using ralf right now and thinking he doen't sound all that bad.
Best, erik burggraaf A+ certified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com On 2009-11-04, at 7:32 PM, anouk radix wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
