[bookport] Re: new book port
- From: Martin Courcelles <mcourcel@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:06:36 -0500
Because they sound human?
Don't get me wrong, I like the old DoubleTalk, but why not use
financially viable text-to-speech, instead of using the DoubleTalk
hardware speech which would double the price.
I do wish that they could crank up the audio bitrate however. It would
make them sound a bit clearer. I have the same pet peeve with the other
players on the market. Right now, the voices sound like they have a
smoke in their mouth.
On 2/9/2010 12:11 PM, Curtis Delzer wrote:
Oh please, why the Samantha, Tom, etc. voices? PLEASE! Why not just
remain with DoubleTalk voice instead, it's better than that!
DoubleTalk is designed with Text in mind, has been for many years and
you could then also make the device an external USB supported
synthesizer with just some additional configuration. Even then a
dictionary for words could be added with double-tap keystrokes for
changing pronunciation of mispronounced words, etc. Is memory
considerations why those voices were chosen? There are just so many
better choices than these voices!
Curtis Delzer.
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