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["Damon" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I disliked it. I was on the trial and I felt completely powerless.

It would be far better if talking book players had built in speech 
synthesizers. That way you could control the book properly. I kept having 
the urge to go back and listen to a word again if I didn't quite catch it, 
but of course I couldn't because it was synthetic speech in an audio file.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Maggie norton" <maggie.norton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 5:12 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: National Library: Audio books in synthetic speech 
trial


> 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>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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
> >
> > Personal emails:  Email me at
> > mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
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