Billy:
Alicia
seeing people towards them." - Helen Keller, 1925
Dear Alicia,
I am thrilled that you like the voices! To answer your question, I know for sure that my typing skills do not even remotely approach 75 words per minute, and the Natural voices by AT& T will not remotely keep up. I think that the Mike voice keeps up a bit better than the other female voice, but why, I don't know. I happen to like the female voice better, however.
Now, I haven't honestly tested the Neo Speech voices for typing per sé, but I was hopeful when I bought them, that they might keep up... I will just have to see at some point. The two Neo Speech voices sound like a million bucks on my Window Eyes demo, but again, as to why that is the case, I haven't a clue. There was quite a flurry of posts about synthesizer voices by Neo Speech some time ago, that had to do with a download from Freedom Scientific. That download was supposed to clear up the rough sound of the Neo Speech voices, as they performed in the Jaws environment. I did indeed download that patch, and it did make a difference, but it did not sound nearly as good as the Window Eyes version of those voices.
I am sure that you could look back in the archives, and find all of the posts that pertained to those particular voices, if it might help your facilitating their working better for you. I might point out also, that the NextUp.com people are quite helpful too. With that said, you will have to remember that they are not "Jaws" people, and are likely to refer you back to Freedom for your Jaws needs. For any speech questions though, they are really great.
I hope that they fulfill your needs completely, but I find that I use the other more natural sounding voices for long reading only (like for my Adobe PDF documents), and the Eloquent voice for typing... someone once told me that it had to do with the difference between digitized voices, and synthesized voices, and your processor's ability to process that much data that quickly. Whether or not that is the case, I do not know.
Well, I would wish you luck, but I don't believe in it! <smile> By the way, I use the Helen Keller quote that is at the bottom of your emails, and I copied it from one of your posts, because I liked it so much! Thanks bunches for that! Stay in touch, and let me know if I can be of any help to you.
Billy
BLittlejohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alicia" <astarner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: jaws and synthesizers
Billy:
I absolutely love these voices. Are they useable with JAWS? Will they keep up with someone who types 75-80 words per minute? I am concerned about that but I have my typing echo turned off because it drives me insane to hear it talk as I type anyway. Thanks for sharing this with me. I love it.
Alicia
"The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude ofseeing people towards them." - Helen Keller, 1925
----- Original Message ----- From: "Billy Littlejohn" <blittlejohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: jaws and synthasizers
--Hey, Alicia!
Wow! You will be amazed by many of the advances in speech with some of the newer voices. If you take a look at some of the AT& T Natural voices, or some of the Neo Speech voices, you will absolutely die three times over. Go take a look on this Website:
http://www.nextup.com
There, you can hear samples of the voices, and even type in some of your own text, to hear how the voices sound with the kinds of things you might be typing. Go take a look, and you will be glad that you did, although, I must tell you, that I still use eloquent for every day things, simply because the eloquent voice can keep up with my typing, and unfortunately, the other voices simply cannot.
Take a look, and tell me what you think later...
Billy
BLittlejohn (at) midsouth.rr.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alicia" <astarner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "jfw" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 4:54 PM
Subject: jaws and synthasizers
Hello, Everyone:
I have a question about using other voices with JAWS. I am using eloquence and the voice is not terrible, but it drives me crazy. Does anyone know if there are other synthesizers you can use with JAWS that would improve the quality of the voice?
Thanks, Alicia "The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude ofseeing people towards them." - Helen Keller, 1925
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