Re: Free TTS engines
- From: "Bob J." <rjustice004@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 09:56:59 -0800
I also have mine set at 85 or 40%. I could understand it almost always at a
faster rate but this rate makes re-reading somethings necessary far less
often.
----- Original Message -----
From: "inthaneelf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: Free TTS engines
yes, mine is set at 86/41 percent, I could move it up a couple points now,
just haven't yet
regards,
inthane
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----- Original Message -----
From: "tribble" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: Free TTS engines
>I have mine on 65 with punctuation set to all, which a lot of people don't
> like, but since I listen to a lot of computer science mail in which
> punctuation is significant, it is what I have gotten used to. Still it's
> kind of a pain to listen to "we apostrophy l l" and other contractions
> even
> if it is at high speed. I'm impressed that you have it on 64 with english
> not being your native language.
> --le
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 5:43 AM
> Subject: Re: Free TTS engines
>
>
> I am using Jaws with Eloquence, and In the menu
> Options/Basics/Voices/Global adjustment, I have set the rate to 64%.
>
> This is because english is not my native language, but maybe other users
> use
> a higher rate.
>
> Octavian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas Stefik" <stefika@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 1:03 AM
> Subject: Re: Free TTS engines
>
>
>> People talk quite a bit about how fast they have the TTS engines going.
>>
>> Would anyone mind posting a couple soundfiles of your screenreader
>> reading computer code at your "usual" pace? I'm curious how fast folks
>> typically have it going. I suspect that, in our pilot studies, we have
>> the TTS engine going way slower than you folks do.
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>>
>> On Dec 21, 2007 2:38 PM, tribble <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Should have read ahead -- thanks Lloyd and all. I agree.
>>> --le
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <lras@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:41 PM
>>> Subject: RE: Free TTS engines
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Natural Voices, VoiceText, Loquento and other modern synthesizers are
>>> concatenative, requiring speech segments to be looked up, best match
>>> found,
>>> then interpolated in order to be modeled on a particular human voice and
>>> sound natural. To adjust their speed, you have to do some more
>>> interpolation and matching, as you do for time-scale modification of
>>> natural
>>> speech, and this begins to get rough and less intelligible as you go to
>>> twice normal speed or faster.
>>>
>>> The older synthesizers, such as DecTalk, Eloquence and the SSI263 speech
>>> chip used by Artic, Braille 'n Speak, Votrax, Accent, etc. are formant
>>> synthesizers. They work on a vocal tract model, and the parameters can
>>> be
>>> varied systematically to alter the speed without creating quite as much
>>> distortion or losing consonants. Of course they don't sound as natural,
>>> but
>>> this is mostly a hindrance to people who don't spend days and days
>>> listening
>>> to them, for whom speed is more valuable than naturalness. The other
>>> advantage of the vocal-tract synthesizers is that they don't require as
>>> much
>>> data to be handled, so they work better for echoing individual
>>> keystrokes
>>> than the ponderous concatenative synthesizers. Even on modern
>>> computers,
>>> these speed and responsiveness issues are important.
>>>
>>> Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
>>> Home: http://lras.home.sprynet.com
>>> Work: http://www.loc.gov/nls
>>>
>>>
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-
>>> > bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andreas Stefik
>>> > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:34 PM
>>> > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> > Subject: Re: Free TTS engines
>>> >
>>> > Peter says:
>>> >
>>> > > I have several of these voices.
>>> > > Wonderful sound for reading but to slow for use in a Gui.
>>> >
>>> > I say
>>> >
>>> > You talking about the AT &T ones? Can't you just speed them up? I know
>>> > that, on windows at least, there is a slider bar you can adjust. Maybe
>>> > you mean something else, though. Might not be true for every OS, or
>>> > every voice though. I readily admit I'm not an expert on such things.
>>> >
>>> > Inthane says:
>>> >
>>> > I have used the AT&T voices and find them to be the best of the TTS
>>> > voices
>>> > that I have herd, (well, except for there attempt to make one sound
>>> > like a
>>> > Scotsman, ouch! LOL),
>>> >
>>> > I say
>>> >
>>> > lol, yaa the Scotsman is hilarious. Well, I guess it's a tough
>>> > decision on what to get.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks for the thoughts, all.
>>> >
>>> > Andreas
>>> >
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