Re: RealSpeak Again... Has Anyone Else Found...
- From: "Kim Loftis" <kll2277@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:00:10 -0400
Chris,
That's an excellent idea about moving the Realspeak to another harddrive. My
computer is very fast already, but anything to make it faster is always a good
thing. I very likely will try that suggestion. Thanks much.
Kim
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From: "Chris Smart" <chris_s@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 10:57 AM
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RealSpeak Again... Has Anyone Else Found...
> At 09:55 AM 7/6/2009, Kim wrote:
>
>>Has anyone else found that, when navigating sites or text using
>>the Realspeak synthesizer, that it's a big more sluggish than,
>>say, Eloquence?
>
> Yes, the larger and higher quality the software synthesizer,
> generally, the more computing resources it requires. You'll notice
> similar behavior if you try the AT&T naturallySpeaking voices or
> Neospeech voices. Having these on a separate partition or hard
> drive may help, or using a faster computer.
>
> Eloquence is snappy now, but I remember when it to, on the slower
> computers of a decade ago, wasn't as responsive as a good hardware
> synthesizer. I still prefer my TripleTalk for that reason - I know
> that my system is being slowed down as little as possible by my
> screenreader.
>
> Chris
>
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