[access-uk] Re: National Library: Audio books in synthetic speech trial

  • From: "Damon" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 19:01:21 +0100

I disliked it. I was on the trial and I felt completely powerless.

It would be far better if talking book players had built in speech synthesizers. That way you could control the book properly. I kept having the urge to go back and listen to a word again if I didn't quite catch it, but of course I couldn't because it was synthetic speech in an audio file.




----- Original Message ----- From: "Maggie norton" <maggie.norton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: National Library: Audio books in synthetic speech trial


Hi Ray,
I took part in the trial and found the synthetic voices very hard work!
I think they were pleased with the feedback they received!
Personally, if it meant I could have faster access to newly published books, I would suffer it!
Maggie

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 2:51 PM
Subject: [access-uk] National Library: Audio books in synthetic speech trial


Wondered if anyone on list took part in the NLB trial of books read in synthetic, or rather, concatonated speech? If you have, how have you found it?

Question is prompted by James O'Dell's mentioning just now of the alternative of a DAISY Harry Potter in Synth speech.
Ray

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