Re: Tips for speed reading /listening with screen readers
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Gene
I also suspect that in the case of Eloquence, high
speed intelligibility is better, perhaps much better, when using American
English instead of Brittish English. I enjoy listening to real Brittish
English. But the Brittish English accent in Eloquence was obviously
created by Americans who have no idea how to properly reproduce a Brittish
accent. It's revolting. Being Americans, they properly reproduced
the American accent.
The American accent is probably clearer at fast
speeds no matter what accent a person is used to because the Brittish accent
degrades the speech itself, it doesn't just change the accent.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: Sociohack AC
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Tips for speed reading /listening with screen
readers I'm so used to E-speak that Eloquence is incoherent to me. But, the flutter you get in E-speak in the boost mode is hindering me to achieve faster speeds. So, I'm forcing myself to get used to Eloquence. And yes, the so called natural sounding synthesizers are not as good at high
speeds. But then, SAPI5 and one core voices aren't much behind if we compare
them to these so called natural voices at moderate voices. I tried a demo of
Acapella, didn't like it much. It's high quality voices do sound good, and more
human like, but you can't use them at high speeds. The speech becomes
incoherent. There is a clatter in the background. When it comes to high
speed functionality, there is nothing better than E[speak and Eloquence.
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