Re: [orca-list] Should Orca have a separate "reading" voice?

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

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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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