[icon-discuss] Re: DECTalk
- From: "Johnny Lam" <johnnybrl@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <fb-oe@xxxxxxx>, <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:22:32 -0700
I completely agree with that! I myself am a Dectalk fan. I like the Dectalk's
voices, specially Paul. I like the old classic Dectalk speech than the newer
fonix one. The older dectalk versions sound more human-like, and I noticed
that the older version, the inflections sound better than the newer versions.
So it would be great if the icon/bp could let you install your own
synthesizers. And yes, Dectalk doesn't take up much room as the more natural
sounding voices like RealSpeak Solo. ----- Original Message -----
From: Beth Terranova
To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 12:58 PM
Subject: [icon-discuss] DECTalk
Hi, all. Research has shown me that DECTalk can run on Linux and on PDAs. I
also learned that DECTalk has an extremely small footprint, if not the
smallest. I would love to see DECTalk as a choice, keeping Eloquence. This
could work in two ways--either you choose Eloquence or DECTalk to be loaded on
your Icon or the two could reside on one unit and you choose with a keystroke
or combo thereof which you want at any given time. The DECTalk sound I'm
referring to is that of version 4.50, I think Access 32 has the same sound, not
that horrible accented DECTalk used on mobile phone screen readers. I love
accents when people speak, not with a Synthesizer. I have heard that version
4.50 is just for Windows, I just mention it here to express the sound to which
I am referring. Thank you for your consideration of this matter and I hope it
someday comes to fruition. Beth
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