[JAWSLite] Re: accessible text to mp3

Hi Chris and list. I was excited about the real speak voices and tried to get 
use to them. For me I thought Samantha was the clearest to understand. I have 
two cochlear implant hearing devices. After a few months of trying to get use 
to it. I unchecked the say all with SAPI 5 and just use eloquence. It is too 
bulky and when you use it for the first time after you start the computer, it 
takes a ling time to get going. and you have to go slow or it seems to trip 
over itself. Other people have said the same thing to me. And I agree that 
freedom should not have added this to the product. I like crystal of at&t 
natural voices. But again eloquence is fine. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Christopher Collins 
  To: jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 7:33 PM
  Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: accessible text to mp3


  Hi, Mohammed and greetings to all:

  Though I don't have a direct answer to your question, you make an excellent 
point about Eloquence.  On December 4, 2006, I posted a message to the 
yahoogroups JAWS list shortly after I had installed and tried out the RealSpeak 
synthesizer I received with JAWS 8.  The subject of my post at that time was 
Raining on the RealSpeak Parade.  I agree with you, Mohammed, about Eloquence.  
Here is what I said at that time.

  Greetings to all:

  The old saying goes that it's difference of opinion that makes horse races.  
A few folks on this list have been very excited about the addition of the 
RealSpeak Sapi5 Solo Synthesizer to the new JFW8.  Well, here I come to express 
just the opposite viewpoint and to say that I can not share in the enthusiasm.  
In fact, after having installed it and tried it out, I have gone so far as to 
remove it once again from my computer.  I'm writing this to make it known that 
not everyone necessarily likes it.  What are the reasons I don't like it?  Let 
me try to tell you all why.  If you simply consider only the actual quality of 
the voices themselves, you would have to be enthusiastic,  because they are of 
announcer quality.  As far as just the vocal quality itself, these synthesized 
voices have never yet been equaled.  But just hearing the vocal quality alone 
is not the whole story of what synthesized speech should be.  It doesn't stop 
there.  Because while Eloquence does not have the vocal quality of RealSpeak, 
it does a much better job of handling something just as (and, maybe more) 
important which is the inflection, the cadence and the ultimate emotionality of 
the reading.  I find the RealSpeak speech to be rather stilted and unnatural.  
You can almost hear the speech being pieced together.  The phrasing and the 
emphasis is often all wrong.  At times, some words seem to get almost swallowed 
up and mumbled over.  Even with its poorer actual voice quality, I still feel 
that Eloquence wins hands down when it comes to capturing the emotional 
eexperience and communicating the real meaning of what I am trying to read.  I 
think FS should not have added this product to JAWS until some of the 
inflection issues became  handled in a more advanced manner than they are at 
present.  Sorry, folks! At 08:04 PM 3/30/2007 +0700, you wrote:

    HI!

    Does anyone know of an accessible program which can convert text to mp3
    using via voice/eloquence?

    God willing, I'll be away from computers for about 4 months to a year and I
    definitely do have many books to read.

    So far I only like and understand eloquence the most in comparison with any
    other speech synth.

    Thanks in advance

    Muhammad Islah Busakorn

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