[bookshare-discuss] Re: Favorite synthetic voices for reading Bookshare books

  • From: "lana" <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:27:59 -0700

Don't know about ipod, but Iphone has language selection in the utilities under 
voice over, and you can select british English.  Kind of neat I called it 
utilities. I meant settings. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ann 
  To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 2:42 AM
  Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Favorite synthetic voices for reading 
Bookshare books


  I have never been able to adapt to Samantha on my Victor Reader Stream, not 
ever, and I've had it for a couple of years now. But this is the only voice I 
have not been able to get used to fairly quickly.

  I love the voices that came with my Read2Go app for my iPod, heather and 
Brian I think they are called. I just wish it had more options to choose from, 
like a couple of British voices. Just because I'm in the US doesn't mean I 
might not like to have a British based book read with that type of voice once 
in a while. But for the computer, I prefer either Neospeech Paul or Kate, 
depending on the book.

  ~Ann



  On 1/18/2012 9:16 PM, Judy s. wrote: 
    I'm looking at a major upgrade in computer systems, and may buy some new 
voices at the same time. I'd love some feedback on which voices the rest of you 
prefer to use when reading Bookshare books. I'm leaning towards the Acapela 
voices. I have four of the AT&T Natural voices right now, but I've heard that 
the Acapela voices sound better and do a better job on pronouncing words. I'm 
also curious about the quality of the Real Speak voices and the Cepstral voices 
that are out there.

    All opinions and experiences, positive and negative, on these appreciated!  
smile.

    Judy s.

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