Re: jaws 8.0 and realspeak solo

  • From: "john coley" <johncoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:12:34 +0100

Here's a link to the range of realspeak voices from the nextup site. They use the realspeak voices for their Text Aloud reader.
John.

http://www.nextup.com/scansoft.html
----- Original Message ----- From: <fioresq1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: jaws 8.0 and realspeak solo


John: I listened to the beginning but since I have to get to work, don't
have time to finish it. They used an English accent. In lieu of listening
to the whole thing, is there any way I can hear this speech elsewhere?
Thanks. John Fioravanti
----- Original Message ----- From: "john coley" <johncoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: jaws 8.0 and realspeak solo


Here's the link to the mainmenu presentation on jaws 8.0. They use the
Daniel voice to read the intro.
                    John.

http://www.acbradio.org/archives/mainmenu/mm275.m3u
----- Original Message ----- From: <fioresq1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: jaws 8.0 and realspeak solo


> Hi: Where can I hear this Realspeak as a demo? John Fioravanti
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "john coley" <johncoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 6:07 AM
> Subject: jaws 8.0 and realspeak solo
>
>
> I too have listened to the presentation on main menu and am looking
> forward
> to the release of Jaws 8.
> I have been using the Daniel realspeak solo voicefor some time. There
> were
> problems using it with Jaws which FS said were due to that particular
> synthesizer, not with Jaws itself. I would be interested to know before
> going ahead and buying Jaws 8 if the problems have been resolved.
> There were three main problems. Firstly, because the realspeak solo
> voices
> don't support pitch change there was no way of denoting capitalisation.
> Secondly Jaws wasn't handling punctuation at all well, in many cases > not
> seeing it at all. Thirdly there was the problem of Jaws wrongly seeing
> abbreviations, for instance, if there was a date ending in st, such as
> 21st
> Jaws would read it as 21 street. There are many other examples. If Eric
at
> FS sees this it would be good if he could let us know if the problems
have
> been resolved.
> John.
>
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