Re: Which Linux + screen reader to choose?
- From: "James Panes" <jimpanes@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:10:11 -0400
Hi Teddy,
Ouch! Using an american accent speech synthesizer to read Romanian? This
explains clearly why you did not like Eloquence at first. Is there a
Romanian Eloquence speech engine available?
Regards,
Jim
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"Everything is easy when you know how."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 2:04 AM
Subject: Re: Which Linux + screen reader to choose?
For the first time I started to use Eloquence, at a very slow rate, it was
very hard to understand what it says.
But after a time I got used to it, and now I like it very much, and I read
even text in romanian language with the English synthesizer.
I know other blind computer users that use a synthesizer named WinTalker
which sounds very robotic and I don't like it at all, but those who started
using the computer with that synthesizer, like it very much and also use it
for reading the text in english, even though it is a synthesizer for
romanian.
I know espeak has a romanian version, but I don't know anybody that use it
regularily.
With other words, the quality of these synthesizers depend on how we are
used to use them.
AT&T Natural Voices sound very well, but I've read some words with it that I
couldn't understand and I needed to read char by char in order to see what's
written there.
This is because I got used to the way Eloquence pronounce those words, even
though other synthesizers might pronounce them more correctly.
(English is not my native language, so if I hear Eloquence pronouncing some
words in a certain way, I think that that it is the correct way).
Octavian
----- Original Message -----
From: "inthaneelf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: Which Linux + screen reader to choose?
> Daniel, I think that depends on what you think is "just fine" smile, I
> know folks who hate eloquence, and swear dectalk is so nice and clear,
> while I feel the other way around, and don't want to give up my eloquence
> for anything I have currently herd of, though if someone could come out
> with a really good, and non lagging female voice I would consider
> using/switching!
>
> regards,
> inthane
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> Links to Jamal Mazrui's Text tutorial packages and Applications, visit me
> at:
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> languages, visit the Fruit basket demo site at:
> http://fruitbasketdemo.alacorncomputer.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Dalton" <d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "blind programming" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:57 AM
> Subject: Re: Which Linux + screen reader to choose?
>
>
>> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
>>
>>> Viavoice sounds much better than espeak or other synthesizers which are
>>> used under Linux, however, I don't know why it is not used anymore...
>>> maybe due to licence restrictions.
>>
>> What is used? you can get it, you must buy it though.
>> Espeak sounds just fine on a linux box...
>>
>> --
>> Daniel Dalton
>>
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