Thank you, couldn't have said it better myself. I hate those voices, especially the horribly compressed, limited, and low quality versions of them on the stream. But i can read for hours on end with doubletalk, at rate 9. Seriously. Don't put the wannabe scansoft voices in. I'll be a lot less likely to buy one.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 12:11 PM Subject: [bookport] Re: new book port
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. HS.
