Doubletalk isn't my favorite speech synthesizer, but make room in the
attic for me, too. If "weird" is my entrance pass, then here I come.
At 05:22 PM 9/14/2006, Steve Nomer wrote:
Hey, Nolan, if you notice some scurrying about in the attic, it's not necessarily a rat! <lol lol> Guess we're members of that same tiny minority!
Steve
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nolan Crabb" <ncrabb@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 5:04 PM Subject: [bookport] In Defense of DoubleTalk...
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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