Hi pamela,
Where can i get this cassette?
----- Original Message -----
From: "PAMELA RADER" <PRADER@xxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:58 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Amazing Voice
Hello, Everyone:
I just want to clarify something in hopes that we can move on:
The MP3 manual is the same thing that is on your cassette manual. It was recorded here in our Talking Book Studioes, by one of our narrators, Carrie Cundiff. Though often confused and accused as not being authentic, she is, in fact, a real person. In order for the whole thing to fit on one side of the cassette, the file was edited by none other than Rob Meredith (a name you should all know and recognize), so that the pauses and breaths were taken out. You may choose to believe otherwise, but now you know the truth! Last word: She is real!
Pamela Rader, TECHNICAL SUPPORT American Printing House For The Blind 1839 Frankfort Ave. Louisville, KY 40206
PHONE: 1-800-223-1839, Ext. 307
walt@xxxxxxxxxx 01/11/06 10:46AM >>>Nope--the earlier message that stated that it's _processed_ real speech hit it right.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Torpey" <ptorpey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10:41 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Amazing Voice
This definitely seems like synthetic speech. I would bet that it is AT&T Naturally Speaking or something like it which uses a similar technology to perform text-to-speech based on sampling from a human subject. I recently heard voices with similar quality from the samples provided on the Freedom Scientific web site for their Sarat reading system. Quite amazing - Too bad this can't be done in a small unit like the Bookport with minimal processing power. This type of speech reproduction probably requires a fair amount of horsepower. Some day, we'll be there though!
-- Pete
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