Hi,
The most responsive sapi 5 voice I have found is e-speak which is,
most unfortunately, not available for Jaws for some reason. E-speak
is not what you could call natural-sounding. It sounds horrid,
actually. None of the natural-sounding voices are going to be
responsive because they are too cumbersome since their goal is not
responsiveness but, rather, to mimic the quality you get from a human
reader as closely as possible. They are used by automated phone
systems, talking caller id's, public transportation announcements, and
other things. With Jaws, I use the sapi 5 voices during say all when I
am reading a book or a long webpage or something like that. To me,
the best balance between clarity and responsiveness is still and
probably always will be Dec talk. If I remember correctly, Jaws does
support all flavors of it. It doesn't sound human but the
pronunciation is just amazing. Acclaimed physicist Steven Hawking
used it as his voice for communicating with people for years and
years. You can still hear it on the weather channel from time to time
too. Always get a kick out of that one. The different voices sound
more pleasant too. No shivers, quavers, or shakes like you get in the
natural sounding voices. Very smooth and very clear right up to
several hundred words per minute. Do that with Samantha and she
sounds like a cross between a goat and an opera singer being violently
shaken.
Incidentally, my personal favorite sapi 5 voice is Karen. An absolute
pleasure to listen to and the accent falls very nicely on the ear.
After that, I'd say I like Tom the best trailed by Lee as the third.
Personal preference.
Alex M
On 8/10/10, Yadiel <yadosotomayor@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes! Although I prefer jill. "She" sounds... well... in lack of a better
phrase, more sweet and plecent to the ear. Although, not as responsive.
In
fact, I yet haven't found a voice that is as responsive as I would like.
Real Speak Solo direct or sappy 5, I still can't find a good sounding
responsive voice. That is why I use eloquence for most of my task
including
web surfing and use the real speak and sappy 5s for reading very long
documents.
Yadiel
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From: "Dale E. Heltzer" <deheltzer@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 8:47 PM
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Different behavior between RealSpeak voices
Some days ago I posted about how RealSpeak Daniel doesn't always
pronounce words the way they're written.
I've been using Samantha, and have noticed no such shortcomings - and
"she" is much more responsive than Daniel.
Anyone else notice this?
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Dale E. Heltzer
deheltzer@xxxxxxx
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