[bookport] In Defense of DoubleTalk...
- From: "Nolan Crabb" <ncrabb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:04:37 -0500
I've followed today's discussion on the merits or lack thereof of the
DoubleTalk speech, and this isn't the first time it's come up on this list.
You know, there's just no accounting for some people's tastes. Take me, for
instance. I guess I'm the ultimate troglodyte primitive caveman on the
list. I love the DoubleTalk speech that comes with the Book Port. I enjoy
it so much, in fact, that I own three--count'em--three DoubleTalk LT
synthesizers, and I routinely hang them off the back of every computer I
own. Now surely this makes me the haplessly messed up list member--the
crazy relative in the attic no one wants to talk to and everyone wants to
talk about.
For what it's worth, thank you, APH staff, for licensing the DoubleTalk
speech or building RC System's chips into your device or whatever you did to
get the DoubleTalk voice in there. I certainly mean no disrespect to others
who prefer other speech synthesizers, and I realize I'm in the tiny minority
here with regard to how much I enjoy the DoubleTalk. Where the Book Port is
concerned, I use the default voice and pitch, drop the frequency to three,
and crank the rate to 9. That's pretty much narrator nirvana for me. :-)
Nolan, who's going back into the attic now that he's disrupted the list's
digital dinner party or civil discourse or whatever it is we're engaged in.
LOL
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