[access-uk] Re: Acapela Voices.
- From: "Roy Bannister" <roy.bannister@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:58:15 +0100
Hi Steve, I am using the Onboard Soundcard, I do realise the concatonative
voices are memory hungry, I possibly was trying to use them too quickly, much
slower than the synthesised voices in Eloquence. If I used key echo the Acapela
voices were certainly sluggish. As I wrote when I have got Skread in operation,
if I am reading a text item, when Skread gives the notification sound the
Skread voice wouldn't announce without pausing the Acapela voice, this is not
the case with Eloquence. I thank you for the opportunity of evaluating these
voices. Good Luck, be seeing you Roy..
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Nutt
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 1:57 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Acapela Voices.
Hi Roy,
Are you using the onboard sound card, or an extra sound card? I use an SB
Live card, which is quite old, and the speech works pretty good on that. I
just wondered, since on your spec, it shouldn't be jerky at all.
All the best
Steve
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Roy Bannister
Sent: Monday 20 October 2008 09:41
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Acapela Voices.
Thanks to Steve sending a demo disk of Acapela voices I have had a chance to
try odd ones. I normally use Reed from Window-Eyes Eloquence, or Paul on Satogo
Dectalk. I found Peter and Ryan were acceptable for reading text passages at a
reasonable speed, found them slightly jerky with final syllables sometimes
clipped. However when typing using either of them I find them rather sluggish,
also the upper case letters are not announced in a higher pitch, I definitely
don't care for this. I have Skread installed on my machine with Skype, using my
normal voices, the Skread voice will announce details whilst the other voice
may be reading something else, this doesn't happen with the Acapela voices,
they are not trying to use the same voice. My machine is a dual core 2.8Gb
processor with 1Gb of ram, this makes me suspect that the Acapela voices are
memory hungry. I will be interested in other users verdicts.
Cheers
Roy
roy.bannister@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Skype: roybannister4787
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