Re: [orca-list] Should Orca have a separate "reading" voice?
- From: Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>
- To: Orca screen reader developers <orca-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: [orca-list] Should Orca have a separate "reading" voice?
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:09:43 -0400
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Hi
Personally, I'm not sure I would use this feature. Though I use say all,
I'm one of those that likes to read rapidly at least if I'm at the
computer. Audio books are another matter and I do enjoy those, but at
the same time I don't typically use natural voices because to me they
just don't sound natural anyway. Note though that my first use of a
computer was the Apple II with the Echo IIe, so I was pretty much raised
on synthetic speech. The only exception is Apple's Alex, since I can
still speed that voice up and it doesn't become choppy or garbled at all
and is responsive to boot. Too bad Apple isn't going to port Alex to
Linux, :(.
Ok, so what my rambling comes down to is I wouldn't object to such a
feature but I'd probably not end up using it.
On 04/30/2010 12:43 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
Hi Willem, all.
I got a fifteen day trial license for Neospeech under Linux and tested it
with speakup and Orca through speech-dispatcher.
I also recently did a similar test using the open-source Svox-Pico tts.
I have recorded a demonstration of these two synthesizers which can be
found at:
ftp://ftp.csir.co.za/MI/National_Accessibility_Portal/wvdwalt/ttsdemo.mp3
Willem, thanks for doing this! Ignoring the issues you found, the
Neospeech voice does sound awfully nice.
This raises a question in my mind: If we're potentially going to have
access to speech synthesizers which are more human-sounding but perhaps
less performant, should Orca have a separate reading voice or SayAll
voice or some such thing? In other words, when you're typing, navigating
in menus and dialogs, etc., Orca would use one voice. When you're
reading text (and/or doing a SayAll), Orca would use another voice.
Just a thought....
Take care.
--joanie
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