Re: Synthesized Voices: Comments
- From: Jacques Bosch <jfbosch@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:06:19 +0200
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>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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