Hi.I'll try that. Right now mine's running at 60, and I find it a bit tough, I can handle 55 comfortably. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 7:44 PM Subject: RE: Free TTS engines
Does everyone stay stationary? I know that for me, I try to nudge it up by 5% every so often, and never turn it back down ... so, I hope to be at 85% comfortable soon. Take care, Sina -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sean Mealin Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 7:29 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Free TTS engines Hi; I have mine set to 136, 87% in the jfw voices window. I will slow it down to 84% if I am reading code. All of my friends have a hard time understanding it. <Smile> Happy holidays to everyone! Sean -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of tribble Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 12:44 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Free TTS engines I figured sina would crank it up faster than most--I would probably go up that high for browsing as you say, but since I also have a hearing loss in the high frequencies I tend to need it a little slower to catch all the consonant sounds, which are the most important sounds to differentiate words. Anyone else go up to 85? Cheers. --le ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 10:59 PM Subject: RE: Free TTS enginesI tend to use 75% for normal use, and then 65 or so for relaxed reading ... sometimes 80 or 85 if I'm just browsing ... don't know how slow or fast thisis compared to others. Take care, Sina -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of tribble Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 1:56 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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'skind of a pain to listen to "we apostrophy l l" and other contractions evenif 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 usea 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 muchdata 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 __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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