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["Maggie norton" <maggie.norton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ray,
I took part in the trial and found the synthetic voices very hard work!
I think they were pleased with the feedback they received!
Personally, if it meant I could have faster access to newly published books, 
I would suffer it!
Maggie

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 2:51 PM
Subject: [access-uk] National Library: Audio books in synthetic speech trial


> Wondered if anyone on list took part in the NLB trial of books read in 
> synthetic, or rather, concatonated speech?  If you have, how have you 
> found it?
>
> Question is prompted by James O'Dell's mentioning just now of the 
> alternative of a DAISY Harry Potter in Synth speech.
> Ray
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