[bookport] Re: Amazing Voice
- From: "PAMELA RADER" <PRADER@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:15:10 -0500
With your Book Port. We don't sell extras, so if you've lost it, find
it. The other thing is that your manual on the Book Port and the manual
on your PC is going to be more up-to-date than the cassette, so you're
not really missing anything but the voice.
Pamela Rader, TECHNICAL SUPPORT
American Printing House For The Blind
1839 Frankfort Ave.
Louisville, KY 40206
PHONE: 1-800-223-1839, Ext. 307
>>> boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx 01/11/06 01:10PM >>>
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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