-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 John, I pretty much agree with your point. I personally don't have an issue with paying $6 for a synth. My issue is that it's totally non-free and the source is apparently gone, so problems like it only being 32-bit and requireing ancient libraries will never be fixed. I'm hoping that one of the newer synths discussed here will eventually replace it for people who insist on using it. I'm not surprised that you would have a sluggish speech experience with Voxin as I had a similar problem with Vinux and Festival. I think it has something to do with Speech-Dispatcher. That, by the way, is one of the reasons why I haven't jumped into X with both feet. I just can't give up my hardware speech. As Jayson said, DECtalk is still the best. Compared to that, I don't like any software speech and I've heard lots of them. Even putting stability and open source issues aside, regardless of operating system, I've never heard a software voice that I could stand for more than an hour or two. On Windows, the trend seems to be a high quality female voice. I don't like them either and I end up slowing them way down to make them understandable, thus losing any productivity advantage. On 5/10/2013 9:16 AM, John G. Heim wrote: > First of all, confort isn't "fluff". Do you think it doesn't matter > what the temperature of your office is? What if they took away your > chair and made you stand all day? If someone want to spend six buck > for the sheer comfort they get from voxin it would make sense. > > Secondly, I can understand more from boxin at a higher speech rate than > I can with espeak. Most likely, when people are reporting that they > find voxin easier to listen too, what they really mean is that they can > understand it better. The reason they get tired listening to espeak is > that they are straining to understand it. If you find espeak easier to > understand, that's fine. But it's silly to dismiss the quality of the > synthesized voice as meaningless. > > If you're going to say the quality of the voice doesn't matter, you're > going to go against just every review of every hardware speech > synthesizer ever written. Everybody cares about the quality of the > synthesized voice. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRjgJjAAoJEPrAuJWnLe0yBJoQALpHLicqVZgzs8eq0mA7qC1E 5hVv1t0vS3xmtdqLYRu2sXJqfLpYZ93UCfX6ZIdPRbntk2aztjZF+7JtD8nrU6g1 mxI/ci56/O5Gp0dJxjPMF9npVEtbqyEx9XiMzGhgCaaHwb44dH9Ma82Q8MLrVh+f g26zxaecYcFg8es8+JbDv29yBA0kTpIYH9kQR4RF80uoMz/ABUUCVPYX0tXZCWiu GRyYTgp+CTuELr1GzO1LbDuRENiHdc2u7zFfGmCKS3RRX2pNWOm4k9V62llc37jo AcNukD9yIiTSW1rVEDTnZKyZDZTJasOyo1ZqMefscqFYkB+2GJhd4fDQ4z4VZ7B1 52Pk6sT6IvUrUGIzk5d4jdSZrroavb4l15JtLkX/aRDkh4ZyrEqR9vV2PTkBY6ME ohoTr1/EE2u607Exev2FIRqVleS2gcmNntActn7i4d1WyiEarqPJ9m0NPq6mbgiP tAO8dfQy8zkCE5/8oMiaZVuz+tbeJJXClbUhs0w2M/LZ3xpLbrZLiR4Dv8j7qpbT t01fjc2mJWe0BCNqfBmVtelSyRJkzonbLxxladGQ4gYclU9/LzoYr0LR5g65hIP2 5YEPL22chU814L3gKK5A9Ksy5Dg6P7EL3PuCnitPRgDHEtCMWxlI3zKC2N6RAsMY EMwSCRphyxuDb1bmdA4P =q59C -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
