Nothing wins hands down in terms of the sound of the synth. Everyone has
their preferences, and nobody's preference is right or wrong. You love
Eloquence, chris hates it. It's just the way of things. I love ketchup
on steak, my brother shudders at the thought. It's a preference, and
there's not accounting for preference, nor is there a need to.
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:27:05 -0500, "Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS)"
<Ted.Lisle@xxxxxx> said:
> Eloquence wins hands down over RealSpeak in overall intelligibility. I
> almost never ask for a repeat, unless I need to more closely examine
> spelling or punctuation. I formed a favorable impression of IBM's
> voices, based upon my testing of their speaking Web browser several
> years ago.
>
> Ted
>
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> Subject: Re: What might be the best sappi voices?
>
>
>
> Sadly the ones that sound really good, real voice like are not very
> responsive. When I hit tab I want to hear tab not a 2 second pause and
> then
> tab. Even with the new real speak voices it's all most like I can feel
> the
> computer straining to work while it's speaking.
>
> Eloquence seems to be the best one when it comes to responsiveness, Next
> to
> that is the IBM voice in open book and then maybe AT&T or one of the
> others
> I can't remember right now.
>
> Of course if you just want something that sounds really good but don't
> care
> how sluggish your computer is go for any of them.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 8:01 AM
> Subject: Re: What might be the best sappi voices?
>
>
> > That all depends on what voice you like. People like different synths,
>
> > it's just a fact of life. Like me personally, I absolutely can not
> stand
> > eloquence, but 99.9% of the blind population insists on using it.
> > So all you can really do is look at all the different Sapi 5 voices
> out
> > there and pick one you like and stick to that.
> > That really is the best advice I can give ya.
> >
> >
> >
> > At 01:24 AM 2/14/2007, you wrote:
> >>Ok, using the sappi voices in Jaws, and got the Crystal Mike but are
> >>there any better voices out there in sappi 5 that I might purchase?
> >>Need the best for a project
> >>Thhanks MMM
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