Re: VOICES FOR JFW

  • From: "Adam Daou" <adam.daou@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 05:45:10 -0500

Hi Richard,
There's more info in the following site:
http://www.freedomofspeech.com/voicetext.html
Adam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ricque" <ricque@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: VOICES FOR JFW


Hi Adam,
Where can I find the Neo Speech voices?
Richard Justice
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Daou" <adam.daou@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: VOICES FOR JFW


> Hi Richard,
> You're raising a good question here. I still don't understand why in 2004,
> almost 2005!, we don't have real human voices in our adaptive software.
I've
> played with my own voice in the 90s (Reading and Recognition), and in
1997,
> I started designing my own screen reader using my own voice using either
the
> PC speaker or a sound card, not even a synthesizer. Today's computers are
> fast enough to deal with human voice processing. Anyway, I don't know what
> version of Jaws you're using but the latest has the following:
> Eloquence,  DECtalk Access32 Software, FlexTalk, Sapi 5, Sapi 4. If you
have
> Jaws 5.1, you can still re-install them. Now for people who have ZoomText
> Level 2 or Kurzweil 1000, there are more voices to choose, but they just
> apply to these two adaptive software. I personally prefer the
human-sounding
> VoiceText from NeoSpeech  (male and female) in Kurzweil 1000 when there's
a
> lot of pages to read. I just use copy and paste for my documents (text or
> Web pages).
> Adam
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ricque" <ricque@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "JFWList" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 1:22 PM
> Subject: VOICES FOR JFW
>
>
> Hello,
> Can anyone recommend a good place to find additional voices for Jaws?
>
> Richard Justice
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