Hi Chela!I went to the Lequendo site and was able to hear Simon's voice, but not Dave's. If Dave is anything like Simon, it is a wonderful voice.
Since this is a SAPI 5 voice, would Window-Eyes be able to use it? I thought when I installed the A Capella voices for Victor Reader Soft that Window-Eyes would be able to use them, but they must be tied to that reader, because they are not in my list of TTS engines in the list of SAPI engines in the list that lets Window-Eyes switch synthesizers. If Dave can be used in Window-Eyes, I am interested.
Debby At 03:55 PM 12/14/2009, Chela Robles wrote
Hello, I'm going to get the Lequendo US voice Dave he is very clear like really easy to understand, I got it from a guy who is not charging me at all for it and it is SAPI5 compatible if interested anyone let me know and I'll ask this guy's permission too.----------------"If you go without playing the trumpet for one day, no one knows, two days, only you know, and more than three days without practicing, girl you better look out, because everyone will know!" Today, I find myself constantly saying those words, just to get myself going, to not give up, and it works. Since I learned to play the trumpet at the tender age of 10, I have spent so much passion and much diligence with that instrument that I will not give up on it. Sometimes my instrument puts me into awkward situations where I feel like they won't ever end, but the trumpet gives me a lot of hope with the majestic, crystal-clear sound it brings to my ears.---------------- Chela Robles E-Mail: cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx MSNWindowsLive Messenger: cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: jazzytrumpet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 1:34 PMSubject: [bksvol-discuss] Auditory Processing Disorder and Reading AccessibilityHi Valerie. I'm probably an odd exception to the auditory processing disorder group. I don't know what is typical, and I'm learning more about it as I go. I was only correctly diagnosed this year, as an adult. Like Nicole, I like the new Acapella voice Bookshare gives us and would love to have all of my devices and programs use that voice, especially JAWS. I'm going to buy it for my computer as soon as I can afford it. You mentioned that people with auditory processing disorder don't recognize TTS speech as sound. That confuses me a little. Do you have any books or web sites you could recommend about this? If there is no information on Bookshare, I will look for a couple of books to scan about it. I seem to be backward if this is normal. Then again, I'm blind too, so maybe normal isn't really applicable. I do well using specific types of speech, and there are some human readers I can barely comprehend. My inability to understand certain readers makes those books inaccessible for me unless I scan them for myself. That's something champions of audiobooks probably don't really understand. I look at the name of the narrator of a book or listen to a sample of the speech before even considering buying it from Audible. I like books that are in a text format so I can use a voice that I understand clearly. I prefer Braille if I can get it. If not, I need a fairly constant, very clear, and unaccented voice to cope with reading. When I have to use a device with a confusing voice, I use my computer to record books into mp3 files using a voice that I do understand well. Then I put my good files on the bad device and can function well. Knowing what I'm dealing with, and that it will benefit our deaf/blind members as well, I usually end up scanning books I want to read from NLS unless they have the book in WebBraille. I often end up scanning my Audible books too, especially ones that I want to learn from or read in depth. Monica Willyard "The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Valerie Maples Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 8:18 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Publishers and Bookshare As a Library I have to agree with Judy. As a matter of fact, Nichole would never listen to a synthetic voice until the acapella voices that are now available on her device. I don't know anyone who prefers TTS over audio books and most are more than willing to pay for the alternative. The only people who learn to accept TTS are those who need a wider range of books or budget constraints make the other alternative unaffordable. Then there are people with auditory processing disorders who do not even acknowledge TTS as speech as it is processed slightly differently in the brain. In my opinion we need to constantly be exploring and expanding all mediums all of text accessibility and in a cooperative effort like Bookshare, I think that everyone comes out winners. I know that even though I have a membership now I will probably almost exclusively be a volunteer due to time constraints, but being a member will allow me to check how certain things are handled in the final process or view how proofreaders have handled my scans. Interesting dialogue everyone... Valerie-----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] OnBehalf Of Judy s. Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 2:39 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Publishers and Bookshare As a Library I view the disabling of TTS as about as silly as the digital rights management.<snip>I don't know a single sighted person, other than myself, who will willingly listen to listen to a book that they can read by listening to it in a synthetic voice. Me? I can't afford expensive audible downloads, and the NLS's offerings are very limited in my tastes, so listening to books via bookshare downloads using either DAISY or Text Aloud has become an acquired taste, one I've become used to and actually very much enjoy. If sighted readers were the least bit interested in hearing books read with a synthetic voice, I suspect the market would be flooded with that sort of book. Why? It is much cheaper for a book publisher to produce that en masse than it is to hire a professional reader and studio to produce the master for each and every book that becomes an audible book. I really doubt that sales of human-read audible books would waver one whit if ebooks had TTS enabled. It would expand the market of ebooks available to the sighted/disabled reader, but that's about it. Just my opinion. Grin. Judy s.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. 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