[raspberry-vi] Re: Pringles Speaker

  • From: "Michael A. Ray" <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:33:34 +0000

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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