[bookport] Re: Preferring Synthetic Speech to Human Narration
- From: Chris Hill <hillco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:18:37 -0500
I'm with you. Seems to me that human narration can add something to
material sometimes, but it is rare. I must admit the guy who narrated
the first few of Stephen King's Dark Tower series made it better than
it probably would have been, and I happen to like Roy Avers reading
military books. Other than that, I'll stick to electronic speech
whenever possible.
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:52:33 -0500, you wrote:
>Sarah said in an earlier message that she is part of a tiny minority who
>prefers synthetic speech to human narration.
>
>While that club is no doubt small and exclusive, I hope and trust there's
>room for me. Even though I'm doing these NLS conversions, I prefer a
>plain-text book like a Web braille title over the human narration any day.
>The choice of the DoubleTalk chip was an excellent choice as far as I'm
>concerned.
>
>I suspect, Sarah, that there are more of us out there than we might
>realize--more who enjoy synthetic speech over human narration, that is. I'm
>solidly in that group.
>
>Nolan
>
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