[bookport] Re: Neo speech

  • From: "David Allen" <wd8ldy@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:54:34 +1300

Hi Rick and list:

Yes, Kate and Paul are neospeech voices. If you have them, they can be used for text and braille files with book port's send as audio feature. But you need to understand that you can't use them if you want to use section navigation in the files. Certainly, as you go through the file on the book port, you can set bookmarks at crucial points. You can easily return to those later.

Cheers,
Dave
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rik James" <d28rik@xxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:49 AM
Subject: [bookport] Neo speech


I'm not real up to date on voices in a technical sort of way.
But has anyone heard of something called Neo Speech?
I recently purchased the new version of Kurzweil scanning software. Someone
mentioned that it had 2 new Neo speech voices, Kate and Paul. I'm not
buying it for that reason, and I'm looking forward to its arrival soon. I
just wondered if anyone knows about the neo speech. However I do not wish
to suggest any changes in the speech of the Book Port at this time. I just
love how it responds and works fine for my needs. And if it ain't broke...

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Russ & Valerie
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 9:08 AM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: Sending Text Files as Audio

I agree; that's why I went with AT&T.

I'm considering expanding my collection of voices. Slowly.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandy Licht" <slicht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, 08 October, 2006 23 43
Subject: [bookport] Re: Sending Text Files as Audio


To each his own, I suppose, but quality is in the ears of the
listener.  I like the AT&T voices as well as Eloquence, but the
Microsoft voices are extremely inferior, at least to me.

At 11:39 PM 10/7/2006, Peter Torpey wrote:

I using the Bookport feature to send a book in text format to the
Bookport as an audio file so that the Bookport can read the book in
a high-quality SAPI5 voice.

This is taking a long, long time (as might be expected).  Not only
does this tie up the Bookport for quite some time, but I know that
the Bookport batteries drain when it is connected to the USB port.

Is there a way of using the Bookport queuing system to pre-process
the text-formatted book into an audio format before connecting the
Bookport?  In this way I would only have to tie up my comuter for
the transfer time and not the entire processing time to transform
the book from text to audio.

Thanks.

-- Pete (still waiting after 1 hour on a 2.6 GHz machine!)
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