[bksvol-discuss] Re: Interesting K1000 Problem
- From: "Kellie Hartmann" <hart0421@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:18:35 -0500
Hi Evan,
Hmm, don't you recognize Vulcan when you hear it? Kurzweil is just trying to
address you in your native tongue... <lol!>
Seriously, I'm 99.9 percent sure that your problem with slowness is being
caused by the Neospeak engine--Paul and Kate. The voices that take little
pieces of recorded human speech and put them together are called concatenated
speech, and they are extremely demanding of processor power and memory, so they
may cause you to be using all your ram plus some of its cache. A friend and I
once tried to do some research on this kind of speech and how it's made, and we
discovered that in order to really grasp it you'd need one P.H.D. in
linguistics and another in software engineering. Between her IT certificate
and my one semester of intro to linguistics we gleaned a vague idea of the
process. <lol>
So far I don't much care for the concatenated speech because of the extremely
weird inflection. They sound like a real person, but like a really creepily
strange real person. <lol> I'm being forced to adapt though--I have a Bible
research program that speaks, and my choices for using it are Neospeech or
Microsoft speech. I loathe MS Speech, referring to it as Microsoft sprak,
(sprak is the Dutch word for speech, and pronounced correctly it sounds more
like a Klingon expression of disgust than anything else.)
So there's the boring linguistics lesson combined with personal rant for the
day. Happy reading with whatever speech you prefer, not to mention braille,
zoomtext, etc,
Kellie
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