Category: Geeks r Us
And how can others get it?
I'm not very knowledgeable in this area. I still use eloquence read and actually really like him.
How about you all? Who's your fave?
Alex with Voiceover. There's only one way to get it though. Lol!
it's kind of hard for me to choose, there are some pretty good sounding sapi 5 voices out there, but they slow down your system if you have a slow one.
hmm. I like dectalk 4.3, eloquence and realspeak, but don't have a fave. ESpeak's ok if you use the variant and inflection options in NVDA. Personally I think anna was prematurely released.
I like whatever synthesizer they used for the Kurzweil Reading Edge machine.
I like the Flextalk software synthesizer. I don't think it's available any more though. If it is, I'd love to hear about it so I can use it as a SAPI voice.
I just love eloquence! It's so suthing to listen to. I love for the read voice to read outloud one of my text books. It doesn't put me to sleep like some audio books can.
if you want flextalk. go to my ftp. ftp://shaunnet.podzone.org then go to sapi 5 voices, sapi 5 voices, then get the flextalk.rar file. Oh, and my favorite synth has to be the infovox 230 software synthesizer with the american english language mail. its just horrid at pronouncing some words, but its cool to use. lol. for example, if pronounces giggle to the max as jiggle to the max, geeks are us as jeeks are us, and one of hte funniest ones, for computer geeks, freaks, and eggheads as for computa jeeks, freaks, and edjeeds. lol. the british english is much better for reading though. lol.
well this one is a hard one. i like dectalk and others but my favorite is any one that comes with my mac and voice over.
I'm all about scansoft Karin at the moment, but you can't beat eloquence for responsiveness.
I like dec talk myself, it sounds clearer, at least to me. wonder how the ATNT voices would sound reading this site?
My favorite synthesizer is ScanSoft Karen. I find the Australian accent fascinating.
As do I. I think that her voice is the most human sounding out of all of the scansoft voices. It adheres to standards of basic human inflection pretty well.
Alex is my hero and comes with Leopard on the mac. He reads quite well at fast speeds and is easy to understand. He doesn't eat too much either.
I am quite fond of the voice over voices, preferably alix. I don't have a mac, but I know what the voices sound like. I also like the scansoft voices.
I like acapela ryan, even though it eats a lot of ram. but if you need to convert an audiobook to mp3, its a good choice, for me at least.
I like dan, but can't figure how to get it
I love voice over's alex. GOtta get a mac to grab him though.
The Reading Machines used DECTalk.
I've heard demos of a synth called cepstral, and it seems quite good. Too expensive though.
I also like some of the A T and T voices.
Eloquence's Reed (He reads like a pro)
Scansoft Daniel (Now THAT'S my baby daddy. JK)
Acapella Allen (He's just plain hilarious)
Acapella Heather and I think the other one's name is Kell? Oh well, either way I like the one that sounds kinda like Heather
I like Dectalk's singing
and I love Microsoft Mary when she sings, too.
I use eloquence Reed.
I use elequence most of the time and like messing around with it to make it do different things. Right now, i'm using the web and whatever it's called scheme that's already built in, but I have made a couple of my own before. I also like most of the sapi 5 voices. I like the scan soft voices as well.
I like eloquence but so far the only synthesiser which can read both Greek and English without having to change voices is orpheus from dolphin. Also the espeak greek voice can read english as well but it needs some improovement for Greek. But the developer did a very good job with the Greek voice considering that he never heard the language and he only read information in wikipedia about Greek.
Also espeak is very small and light and very responsive.
I couldn't find a way of making jaws speak greek either.
I like scan soft karen, scan soft Samantha, and scan soft Tom.
Jaws will speak Greek in the following ways.
1. By downloading jaws 10 beta and also downloading the realspeak direct Greek voice from the website.
This voice is good if you are going to work in an only Greek invironment without English involved. If you will work with both Greek and English this voice is not very good.
2. Install the espeak for sapi5 and use Greek that way. This way is good because you can work with both greek and English but the Greek support still needs improovement.
3. With some dolphin products they include sapi4 and sapi5 versions of their voices. I tried to get sapi4 to work with jaws but i get a message that this program has encountered a problem and needs to close.
For some reason, i couldn't find where to download the beta of jaws 10. I like Scansoft Karen, Lee and Daniel. Realspeak Jane isn't as good, but it's there. I'm not too keen on Scansoft Jill and Samantha though.
Yeah Samantha sounds kinda fake. Jill's okay though.
There's a voice called Dog you can get and if you try and read text with it, it translates as a series of Barks!!