RE: Elequence
- From: "Cy" <cselfridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:18:43 -0600
Come on Bruce, you are kidding us.
I didn't know there was life before Windows. (smile)
DecTalk even goes back to the Apple II+ and before and, friends, that
was a day or two ago.
Way back then that Dec Talk sounded pretty blamed good. It was head and
shoulders above almost everything else available. What did the Kirtswild
use for a speech engine?
Artic and some others sounded just about like the Double Talk does
today, sorta sorry.
The JAWS voices are pretty good everything considered. You can tailor
them to something you can easily understand and they are pretty
responsive. As I have said before, had I known about a month before I
did that I could put two sound cards on my computer I would not have the
Double Talk as Eloquence is far, far superior.
Cy, the Ancient One...
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Bruce Toews
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 6:10 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Elequence
By and large, DecTalk's pronunciation rules are very, very primitive
compared to just about anything else out there. This is simply the way
it
is, as the basic algorithm behind DecTalk hasn't really been changed
since
the early eighties. The voice itself has a bit more of a human
characteristic than most synths, but the reality is we're dealing with
pronunciation rules that date back before the Echo and the Apple IIe.
Bruce
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On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Sun Sparkle wrote:
> Ok here is a word for you to try
> this is a name in a book and you are right dec talk does a better job
> of reading words. the name is Talia
> to get jaws to say the name right you need to put tallia
> but when using dec talk with the spelling talia it reads it the right
way.
> so i would also like to know this as well.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "C_no_C" <cnoc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 4:42 PM
> Subject: Elequence
>
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> Just wondering if there is a way to change the the way Eloquence
> pronounces
>> certain words. I can see a difference between my dectalk Express and
>> Eloquence. I am thinking of selling my Dectalk but I would like
>> Eloquence to pronounce certain words better. Would The Sapi 5 voices
>> do better? I can not think of an example right now.
>>
>>
>> C_no_C
>>
>> "If you work on a lobster boat,
>> sneaking up behind someone and pinching him
>> is probably a joke that gets old real fast."-----Jack Handy, Deep
> Thoughts
>>
>>
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