[jaws-uk] Re: Daisy Book project
- From: "Jamie Cuthbertson" <jamie.cuthbertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:43:20 -0000
Iain,
I can't make a categorical statement here as I have only started listening
to the CDs but I know for a fact that whilst Jaws is generally pretty good
with the Eloquence synthesizer, it is certainly not perfect and I'm sure
that you would find the kind of problems that Bob mentioned in his message
if you tried to use it without modifying the original text or customising
the synthesizer.
I also believe that the Rhetorical voices may have been used on some of the
CDs. If this is the case, in my own opinion, this voice is superior in
quality to Eloquence so we can agree to disagree on this point. It does,
however, cost a heck of a lot of dosh so may not be financially viable to
some producers!
However, my main point was that people have to feed all this comment back to
NLB and Dolphin because without this feedback nothing will change. For
example, if you look beyond the quality of the synthesized speech, what did
you think about the ability to navigate quickly through the text? Did you
like the ability to search for text within the book - not all DAISY books
will let you do this and only those with the complete text of the book will
have this functionality. Does this kind of feature mean that you would
prefer to use a software DAISY reader rather than a hardware player which
can't search for text?
If the only thing that you really don't like is the quality of the speech,
there are ways round this even if they would take longer to produce e.g.
good old human speech. However, NLB really needs to know that that's how
you feel so I would encourage those of you who are reluctant to complete the
questionnaires to reconsider your reasons for this.
Cheers for now,
Jamie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Iain Lackie" <ilackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:02 AM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Daisy Book project
Jamie,
I think the point here with regard to the voice on the DAISY books is that
what we hear by default with JAWS (i.e. Eloquence) is simply streets ahead
of anything on these CD's.
Iain.
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