RE: Which Speech Engines are JFW users using? Tell me why!

  • From: Bruce Toews <coke_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:30:10 -0500 (CDT)

I use Eloquence at work because I have to, and a hardware synth at home 
where I have the choice.

Bruce

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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Matthew Horspool wrote:

> Hello, I use DECtalk ACCESS32
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Beto Escobar III
> Sent: 13 September 2004 16:45
> To: JFW List Serve
> Subject: Which Speech Engines are JFW users using? Tell me why!
>
>
> Hello Everyone on the List Serve--
> My name is Beto Escobar III, and I am wanting to know which Speech
> Engines are the most used by JAWS users?  I am using the DECTalk
> Express, but I just purchased the AT&T's Natural Voices.
>
> I remember when I first heard the DECTalk I thought-- Wow!  That really
> sounds good!  Then a friend sent me a link to a wav file he created
> using his AT&T's Natural Voices, and I was just stunned.  It really blew
> me away.  It honestly sounded like a natural voice.  He was using the
> United Kingdom female voice, and the accent, and me being a Texas boy,
> sounded very real.  As a result, I went ahead and purchased both the
> AT&T's Speech Engine, which comes standard with two American voices both
> male and female, as well as the United Kingdom female voice.  I hope to
> be receiving them today.  I wonder though, what else is out there?  I
> would not have any idea.  As a result, I am sending this question to the
> list serve.  What Speech Engines are you using?  Are you pleased with
> how it sounds?  Do you have any recommendations for the rest of the
> users?  Are there any we should stay away from?  Let us, or me, know.
>
> Thanks,
> Beto Escobar III a JFW USER SINCE 2.0 WAS RELEASED!
>
> Post Script--
> I purchased the DECTalk Access 32-- Don't buy it!  Stay Away!  Eloquence
> Blows it away!
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