Re: Synthesized Voices: Comments
- From: "The Elf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:53:25 -0800
oh, feeling a little bovineish today?
a bad case of hoof in mouth disease?
here you can use my salt shaker to make that taste a little better at least,
smile
note I have a supply of old shoe salt available, no need to wonder why eh
elf
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Homme, James" <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 11:15 AM
Subject: RE: Synthesized Voices: Comments
Hi Alex,
Right. My shoe tastes like mud today.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Midence
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 1:42 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Synthesized Voices: Comments
I think it's waywardgeek@xxxxxxxxxx I don't know what he's up to
these days. He hops onto the vinux development forum from time to
time. I think he's doing something with Android and daisy books last
I heard. Oh, and it's Cox with an x not a cks. Spelling it that way
has a most unfortunate effect when read with eyes or fingers which you
totally miss with speech. I don't think he'd take offense or anything
but it's still good to know the spelling of his last name.
Alex M
On 3/10/11, Homme, James <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
Bill Cocks, if you are on here, write me. If not, does anyone have his
e-mail address?
Thanks.
Jim
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sina Bahram
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 1:06 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Synthesized Voices: Comments
Talk to Bill Cox
Take care,
Sina
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Homme, James
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 8:24 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Synthesized Voices: Comments
Hi,
I'd love to be able to understand how ESpeak works well enough to make
voices for it that sound better, have better rhythm, and are more
intelligible at faster speeds. I don't understand that Phoneme stuff.
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jacques Bosch
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 8:06 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Synthesized Voices: Comments
That is exactly what I have found. Natural sounding voices start becoming
much more unintelligible than synthetic / robotic sounding voices at high
speed.!
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Jared Wright
<wright.jaredm@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:wright.jaredm@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
The problem I've found with most ultra-realistic voices is they sound
terrible at high speeds. Which makes sense, no human talks at the rate I
have my screen reader at and would sound ridiculous if they did. But I
value
being able to get through information quickly, so I'll take Eloquence.
On 3/10/2011 7:33 AM, Homme, James wrote:
Hi,
Hi,
This is something that is probably very hard to get right. Two of the
things that make me stick with Eloquence are that it emphasizes words
usually at the correct places, and it pauses in the right spots for
punctuation. Even though I like the human voices because they sound like
people, I find it difficult to listen to them for more than a few
minutes because I have to keep translating emphasis in my head.
Jim
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