Martha, assessing the quality of a text-to-speech by listening to a
podcast
recorded in a noisy environment may be a little difficult.
The good news is that you can evaluate the Ivona II voices on your own
Windows computer. A 30 days trial is downloadable at no cost from
ivona.com.
The Ivona voices are compatible with SAPI 5. I have run them successfully
with K1000.
Please do share your comparative impressions with us after you played with
Ivona.
G.
Guido D. Corona
Levelstar LLC.
685 S. Arthur Ave. Unit 1A
Louisville, Colorado
80027
Email: support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Phone: (800) 315-2305, x.1
-----Original Message-----
From: Marta Rodriguez [mailto:yerbabruja1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 1:20 PM
To: support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [icon-discuss] Re: New product management
I heard a demonstration of one of the Ivona voices when Mr. Corona was
interviewed by one of the gentlemen from BlindBargains.com at the CSun
convention. The particular voice that was sampled sounded like one of the
voices in my Victor Reader Stream, which actually doesn't sound so human.
I
don't mean to be rude or disrespectful, and I do understand the reason
that
LevelStar and APH can no longer use the Eloquence speech engine, but if
the
voices of Ivona are like the ones I have on my reader stream, then I would
respectfully observe that the voice quality may not necessarily be less
mechanical. This doesn't diminish the improvements that Orion would bring
to
the PDA market, like the ability to use it in conjunction with regular
Android aps, not to mention the ability to use it without having to go
through stressful and time consuming processes of learning to work with
touch
screens. But if we want an accessible PDA to be more or less cost
effective,
we might have to wait on those more human sounding speech engines.
Marta
Marta
Marta
----- Original Message -----
From: "Levelstar Support" <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 2:01 PM
Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: New product management
Means the Orion voice will sound almost like a human, not like a robot.
Guido D. Corona
Levelstar LLC.
685 S. Arthur Ave. Unit 1A
Louisville, Colorado
80027
Email: support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Phone: (800) 315-2305, x.1
-----Original Message-----
From: icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of david
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 12:52 PM
To: brandonboy13@xxxxxxxxxxx; happytrails@xxxxxxxxxxxx;
icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: New product management
what do you mean it will not have A mecanical voyce so are people going
to
use it then On Tue, 24 May 2011
08:12:32 -0700, Brandon Keith (Biggs) wrote:
Yep, so the new device will be coming out end of July beginning of August
and the price should be below $3100, probably somewhere between 1400 and
3000.
And this new product is expected to "take the blind world by storm!" :D
It will have an Android platform, which means any programmer who works
for
Google could essentially write Aps for the Orion, although I think
Android
is a pretty simple language compared to Python, so more people will be
able
to program aps for it.
It should be about as long as 1.5 Braille+es and thinner.
And it will have all the capabilities of the Braille plus, plus some!
The only things a switch-over user will have to deal with is not having a
mechanical voice on the Orion and the long size. (And based on its name
it
will be red!)
These are conclusions based off of Levelstar's tendencies and info that
has
already been given on the Orion.
Thank you,
Brandon Keith Biggs
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From: "Snow Bunny" <happytrails@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 7:56 AM
To: <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [icon-discuss] New product management
Hi, this is to address listers' complaints regarding Levelstar's policy
of
not sharing features and price points prior to Orion's release. This is
to be expected! Mainstream companies do the same. Also, as Guido
stated,
a 5 year lifespan is almost unheard of these days for computer tech,
hardware and software. Think how different Windows 7 is from XP and I
have already heard general rumblings about Windows 8. I suggest that we
use our energy constructively on this list, anticipating and excitedly
awaiting Orion. Beth
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