Yeah probably, words per minute. Makes sense doesn't it? At 15:06 23/12/2007, you wrote:
By the way, I used to pay attention only to the percentage, but I've seen that there is another number there.Jaws tells that I use 111, 64%. Does anyone what it means (if it means something) 111?Words per minute, or something like that? Octavian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob J." <rjustice004@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 7:56 PM Subject: Re: Free TTS enginesI 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 . For Blind Programming assistance, Information, Useful Programs, and Links to Jamal Mazrui's Text tutorial packages and Applications, visit me at: http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com . to be able to view a simple programming project in several programming languages, visit the Fruit basket demo site at: http://fruitbasketdemo.alacorncomputer.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "tribble" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 10:56 AM Subject: Re: Free TTS enginesI 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 enginesPeople 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 > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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