[jaws-uk] Re: Jaws V8 - Initial reaction

  • From: "Colin Baxter" <C.R.Baxter@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 17:15:39 -0000

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





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