[bookport] synthesizers
- From: Sky Taylor <skyt@xxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:20:30 -0700
larry, my vote is for the appollo 2 synths and the doubletalk. I like
doubletalk, mainly because I think its a good synth, and the voices are
pretty cool
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aman Singer" <aman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 6:55 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Synthesizers
> Hi, Larry and all.
> I'd be happy with retaining Doubletalk, or using Eloquence, but
> would be overjoyed to have Dectalk on the BP. I use Dectalk for all my
> reading in Kurzweil, and would love to have it as a portable option.
> I have two suggestions, if I may make them. First, I would ask that
> very human-sounding synthesizers, like AT&T Natural Voices and Neospeech
> be
> avoided, not only because they need resources, but because they would make
> really fast reading on the BP somewhat difficult. This is probably an
> idiosyncrasy of how I use the machine (I'm a student and want to get
> through
> as much material as possible in as short a time as possible with as much
> comprehension as possible), but I also think it might apply to anyone who
> uses the BP to read material where speed and comprehension are key. In my
> experience, the faster an almost human voice goes, the worse it is.
> Secondly, would it be possible to have several synthesizers for the
> BP? Perhaps people could specify the one they want at the time of ordering
> or, and I would imagine this would be more difficult than it might be
> worth,
> people could flash synthesizers as they now flash firmware.
> Aman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of LARRY SKUTCHAN
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 9:08 AM
> To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bookport] Synthesizers
>
> While we are talking about synthesizers, let me ask a question or two:
>
> What do you think of DEC-Talk?
>
> I will say that AT&T Natural Voices requires far too much in the way of
> resources than we are able to put on a low power-consumption device.
>
> It looks like the top contenders are
>
>
> DoubleTalk
> Eloquence
> DEC-Talk
>
> What are your thoughts?
>
> Do you know of others?
>
>
>
>
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