[bksvol-discuss] Re: Publishers and Bookshare As a Library
- From: "solsticesinger" <solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:47:25 -0600
I, too, prefer TTS, if it's well-done. Stream TTS is horrid, but there is
some that is really quite good. Often, human narration bothers me.
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From: "Soronel Haetir" <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 8:21 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Publishers and Bookshare As a Library
I for one prefer TTS (at least with modern high quality voices) to
human narration. Humans do not speak fast enough for my tastes.
While there are tools that can do a certain amount of speed change
without pitch change that is just too much work to be worth it for me.
On 12/12/09, Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have to agree with Judy. As a matter of fact, Nichole would never listen
> to a synthetic voice until the acapella voices that are now available on
> her
> device. I don't know anyone who prefers TTS over audio books and most are
> more than willing to pay for the alternative. The only people who learn to
> accept TTS are those who need a wider range of books or budget constraints
> make the other alternative unaffordable. Then there are people with
> auditory
> processing disorders who do not even acknowledge TTS as speech as it is
> processed slightly differently in the brain.
>
> In my opinion we need to constantly be exploring and expanding all mediums
> all of text accessibility and in a cooperative effort like Bookshare, I
> think that everyone comes out winners. I know that even though I have a
> membership now I will probably almost exclusively be a volunteer due to
> time
> constraints, but being a member will allow me to check how certain things
> are handled in the final process or view how proofreaders have handled my
> scans.
>
> Interesting dialogue everyone...
> Valerie
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Judy s.
>> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 2:39 PM
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Publishers and Bookshare As a Library
>>
>> I view the disabling of TTS as about as silly as the digital
>> rights management.
>>
> <snip>
>> I don't know a single sighted person, other than myself, who will
>> willingly listen to listen to a book that they can read by
>> listening to it in a synthetic voice. Me? I can't afford
>> expensive audible downloads, and the NLS's offerings are very
>> limited in my tastes, so listening to books via bookshare
>> downloads using either DAISY or Text Aloud has become an acquired
>> taste, one I've become used to and actually very much enjoy.
>>
>> If sighted readers were the least bit interested in hearing books
>> read with a synthetic voice, I suspect the market would be
>> flooded with that sort of book. Why? It is much cheaper for a
>> book publisher to produce that en masse than it is to hire a
>> professional reader and studio to produce the master for each and
>> every book that becomes an audible book.
>>
>> I really doubt that sales of human-read audible books would waver
>> one whit if ebooks had TTS enabled. It would expand the market of
>> ebooks available to the sighted/disabled reader, but that's about it.
>>
>> Just my opinion. Grin.
>>
>> Judy s.
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