[raspberry-vi] Re: Pringles Speaker

  • From: Dan Rossi <dr25@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:26:01 -0400 (EDT)

Hmm, sounded like music playing out of a Pringles can.

Not familiar with how espeak sounds, but I started by listening to an 
Echo II, got through college listening  to a ProVert speech synth, then 
went to a DecExpress on one machine and a MiniTransport on another.  I 
actually preferred the MiniTransport due to the responsiveness.  I use 
Eloquence now, and it sounds, to me, much like the other three, but when 
you listen to a synth for 10 hours a day, they all start to sound human 
to you.  Although, I would never read a book using synthetic speech.  Just 
kills it for me.

I am no speed typist, but I use echo words not characters, and I have 
things set to not interrupt words.  So typing responsiveness has never 
been a real issue for me.

I'm a huge skeptic, so don't fully believe the floppy drive music thing.

Oh, btw, did I mention that my Pi showed up in the mail last week?  I was 
quite surprised as I wasn't expecting it until April or May.  Tiny little 
thing.  I've been on call for work so haven't had a chance to do anything 
more than open the package and look at it.

-- 
Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
Senior Oracle Database Administrator
Carnegie Mellon University.
E-Mail: dr25@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tel:    (412) 268-9081
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