[raspberry-vi] Re: Pringles Speaker
- From: "John G. Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:57:20 -0500
But you're implying that espeak is faster than the alternatives which
isn't necessarily true. At least on my desktop, voxin is far more
responsive than espeak. And I can crank the speech rate up much higher
and still understand it.
I have no scientific evidence for this experiments I've run on myself.
But I suspect that the reason people keep saying they get tired
listening to espeak all day is that they can't understand it as easily
as other voices like eloquence. They're straining to understand it all
day. I know that I can understand eloquence at a much higher speech
rate than I can espeak.
On 03/29/2013 09:20 AM, Michael A. Ray wrote:
>
> If the nice clean and sweet smelling person takes twice as long to tell
> me and charges me money for the data I'll stick with Mr Pig-pen.
>
> Mike
>
> On 29/03/2013 14:17, Glenn wrote:
>> I think a good comparison would be like interacting with someone who is
>> disheveled, sweaty, and stinky to interacting with a clean person.
>> Both can give you the information you need, but why not get the information
>> from the one whom is not offensive?
>> Glenn
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michael A. Ray" <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 9:07 AM
>> Subject: [raspberry-vi] Re: Pringles Speaker
>>
>>
>>
>> That's exactly my point. All I need to know is where the cursor is and
>> what I just did, and what I need to do next.
>>
>> I don't need the voice to inflect in the right places. I don't need the
>> voice to simulate breaths like svox pico seems to.
>>
>>
>> Don't need Voxin when I got eSpeak. That would involve paying for a
>> piece of software.
>>
>> Having said that...when I play eSpeak through my PC speakers instead of
>> my Logitech USB headphones it sounds very different.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> On 29/03/2013 13:56, John G. Heim wrote:
>>> Mike, typing speed and speech rate are not trivial concerns. These
>>> things can have a significant impact on productivity.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/29/2013 06:33 AM, Michael A. Ray wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Philistines! Bow down to eSpeak, the greatest speech synthesizer that
>>>> ever lived. More language support than most, more responsive than
>>>> Eloquence, faster than a speeding bullet and laughs in the face of SAPI.
>>>>
>>>> Fiddling about with speech settings is the blind person's equivalent to
>>>> a sighted person fiddling with their desktop theme. Stop listening to
>>>> the voice and do some real work!
>>>>
>>>> It's only there to tell me whether I'm on a combo box or an edit
>>>> control, not to empathise with my mood ffs.
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 29/03/2013 11:25, Jonathan Horniblow (Talking Newspaper Services)
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Tim Chase
>>>>> <raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Besides, using espeak voices, can they actually get much worse, even
>>>>>> if you play them through a Pringles can? (grins, ducks, and runs)
>>>>>
>>>>> No need to duck and run - I completely agree!
>>>>> I mean, this is shocking.
>>>>> http://espeak.sourceforge.net/samples/raven.ogg
>>>>> It's 2013 FFS!
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