[vicsireland] Re: Nokia Text To Speech
- From: "Tim Culhane" <tim.culhane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:27:30 +0100
Hi Tony,
I think there maybe a bit of confusion on both sides here.
As Darragh explained Nokia TTS is symply a means of producing synthetic
speech. However, it can't do this on its own, it needs to be made to do
this by a software package such as Talks or the other built-in Nokia
packages.
the built-in Nokia packages are simply very basic applications for
sighted people to use ... They are in no way a "real" screen reader in the
way visually impaired people would be used to.
I'm afraid that you will need to buy another Talks or similar screen
reader for your phone in order to get any benefit from Nokia TTS.
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tony Sweeney
Sent: 01 October 2008 16:21
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Nokia Text To Speech
I don't know where you got the idea that I wrote that Talks was competing
with Nokia?
Perhaps I may have been a little tongue and cheek in my mail!
So Nokia TTS is really of no use without Talks I think you are saying?
Anyway I will leave the subject now as I feel that I'm being misunderstood
and misrepresented!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darragh Ó Héiligh" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 4:05 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Nokia Text To Speech
> Sorry about that last message. this auto forms mode feature has a mind
> of it's own at times!
>
> Tony, Unless I'm vastly mistaken, Nokia TTS is not in competition with
> Talks. Could you point out where you've read that? as stated clearly
> in my previous message, a text to speech synthesizer is nothing but a
> component waiting for software to drive it. Unless something tells it
> what to speak it's not going to speak.
>
> I think I answered your question fully in my last message however, if
> I'm incorrect and for some reason Nokia have decided to compeet with
> Talks, I'd be very interested to know where you've heard this.
>
> Darragh
> www.digitaldarragh.com
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