Re: Sluggish Samantha
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 07:25:43 -0800
Hello Peter,
Happy new Year. Thanks for sharing your personal experience with the
RealSpeak voices (I hate the way Jaws and Eloquence pronounce that if you
don't capitalize the "s"). I guess I'll just have to install those voices
and see how I feel about them. As I said, I'm so accustomed to the Eloquence
voice of Reed that unless the alternative performs just as responsively and
crisply as that, I'm not very likely to be charmed into using it. Which is
fine. I'll just have to try it out.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Holdstock" <peterholdstock@xxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: Sluggish Samantha
I've used some of the earlier realspeak voices with JAWS and a fast PC and I
found it good enough for all uses. It did have a very slightly, hardly
noticable delay, but over time you do notice it.
Despite many people criticising the JAWS voice as is, I actualy found myself
going back to it and I seemed to listen to it better and take in what it was
saying.
The realspeak voices I used before, where ones which came with Kurzweil 1000
which I use at work.
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 12:42 AM
Subject: Sluggish Samantha
>I haven't received my CDs yet, so I don't have the voices. don't ask; I've
> been on the phone with FS three times about this, and their file shows
> they've resent the package twice by now, with nothing ever having arrived,
> at least not yet. Same address as since I began using Jaws, version 3.7.
>
> But anyway, I remember hearing that FS promotes these new voices as being
> agreeable to use when you're performing a Say All in a long text document,
> rather than when you're navigating a Web page or doing editing or anything
> else that requires a lot of operations and keystrokes. I assume everyone
> else heard that, too. No? They aren't recommending it for use as our
> default voice to simply get rid of Eloquence. God knows, Reed may have his
> faults, but at least he's got pretty good vocal reflexes for doing most of
> the work we do on the computer.
>
> What I'm wondering is, are the alternative voices so sluggish in their
> response that they make even sitting back and doing a sayall, for instance
> on a lengthy newspaper article, a pain in the butt?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt" <msoct@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 4:23 PM
> Subject: Re: Samantha won't stay
>
>
> I agree, the sapi voices are very sluggish, with a lot of pauses in the
> speech.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Siobhan" <littlesailorgirl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 4:32 PM
> Subject: Re: Samantha won't stay
>
>
>> You probably don't want the sappy voices, because it's very sluggish
>> compared to Eloquence. Maybe that's why they won't let you set it as the
>> default. Not sure, just offering an opinion.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Shannon Hannah" <hannah74@xxxxxxx>
>> To: "JFW" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 5:30 PM
>> Subject: Samantha won't stay
>>
>>
>>> Is there a way for jaws to start with one of the sappy voices? when I
>>> bring
>>> up my jaws 8 it comes up in eloquence, then I have to change it manually
>>> to
>>> Samantha. I have changed it in config manager but it still comes up
>>> eloquence when I start jaws 8. Any suggestions?
>>> Shannon
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