Hi Darren/all I'm already familiar with these voices via Kurzweil. I agree that they are good for easy listening, but, contrary to what the producers say, they are not as good as the more predictable synthesised speech if you need to read a long article in a massive hurry. Cheers Colin -----Original Message----- From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Darren H Sent: 02 December 2006 07:24 To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jaws-uk] Jaws V8 - Initial reaction Hi folks I've just received my new Jaws 8.0 disc, upgraded from 7.0. I have two initial thoughts... 1. The new natural sounding voices are great if you just want to sit back and listen, and I guess that is what they're designed for, anmd that's exactly how they'll be used on my system. 2. I've actually found that latency, that is the time between hitting a ke or performing an action and the time it is executed is slower than JFW 7.0, and that's using elequence, not the new voices. Has anyone else found this true of point number 2? Having said that, I'm really impressed so far, even the voice upgrade is worth it. Now all we need to do is get the natural voices to CD quality and get the inflection spot on and life will be grand. Wouldn't it be great to be able to take a document spoken from word or a web site, using the natural voices and save them as MP3 files. Cheers Darren ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ***************************************************************************************** To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://www.hull.ac.uk/legal/email_disclaimer.html ***************************************************************************************** ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq