From: "John Heim" <jheim@math.wisc.edu>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: New Speech??
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 09:21:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00fe01c6d288$dd81e2e0$4ba65c90@vv507j> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4e6228872ajsd@clara.co.uk>
I'd be interested to hear how it compares with a modern commercial
> synth for someone with hearing difficulties, for the purpose of
> intelligibility. Its speech isn't as natural as the commercial synths
> of course, but that's not necessarily the same as intelligibility.
That's a good point. In fact, I was thinking about that on the bus on the
way home last night. Somebody told me that they'd heard the new voice for
Voiceover for the Mac and it sounded very human. It blew him away, he said.
But that guy isn't blind.
That's what got me thinking. 80% of the time I use JAWS and Windows. The
other 20 is speakup and a hardware synth. The default JAWS voice is quite
nasally. You can select voices that sound more natural but they're not as
clear.
In fact, when people want to make sure they're understood, they usually
speak in an unnatural tone. So I take it that you wrote espeak with
intelligibility in mind rather than trying to make it sound "real". If so,
you've done a good job.
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Paul Migliorelli +1-303-552-6970
` Reinhard Stebner
` W. Nick Dotson
` propaine
` W. Nick Dotson
` Steve Holmes
` Jonathan Duddington
` John Heim [this message]
` Steve Holmes
` Paul Migliorelli +1-303-552-6970
` any lister in Sacramento? Karen Lewellen
` New Speech?? Cheryl Homiak
` Tyler Spivey
` Cheryl Homiak
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