[bookport] Re: Upgrades: Hardware and Firmware
- From: Will Smith <wilsmith@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:06:43 -0400 (EDT)
Wow!
I can't disagree with you more! Speech synths are very individual things.
I am thankful that I can fully comprehend most texts at speeds of 8 or 9
just about all the time using Dubltalk.
On the other hand I can't use Eloquence unless I slow down far too much.
Go figure!
Will
wilsmith@xxxxxxxxx
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Tiffany H. Jessen wrote:
> Wow, it's truly just a preference thing. I Am on the total opposite. Of all
> the synthesizers I have used, Doubletalk is not only on the bottom, but it
> wouldn't even make my preferred list if I could live without the Book Port.
> Irrelevant to what a competitor product might offer in other features, if it
> had a different synth I would drop the book Port in a flash with no second
> thoughts. Also on the contrary to you, eloquence is at the top. I Use
> Eloquence with JAWS cranked up more than 95 percent of it's capabilities,
> meanwhile I can't use the bookport at anything faster than 6. Especially if
> the document I'm reading has some scanning errors. Then I have to slow it
> down even more. It's hard to explain it. I much prefer it fast, and just
> want to kick the thing to go faster, but yet I can't understand doubletalk
> fast, so it just sounds like garbage. That's not even accounting for the
> monotoneness. To me, Eloquence at any speed is so much easier and clearer to
> understand.
> Tiff
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Will Smith" <wilsmith@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 7:35 AM
> Subject: [bookport] Re: Upgrades: Hardware and Firmware
>
>
>> I too prefer Dubltalk speech over any other choice, primarily because of
>> the ability to understand it at a high speech rate.
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>> Preferences in speech are indeed variable, and for me the more I use
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>> Dubltalk the better I like it. I'vebeen using it since 1991.
>> And it's gottenbetter over the years.
>> Will
>> wilsmith@xxxxxxxxx
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