A good synth?

Glenn Ervin at Home GlennErvin at cableone.net
Mon Jul 19 21:56:06 EDT 2004


I have heard that some people with a hearing loss prefer the Braille & Speak
for their computer's synth.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Will Smith" <wilsmith at iglou.com>
To: <sbahram at nc.rr.com>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 11:31 AM
Subject: RE: A good synth?


All synthethic speech is subject to individual taste.

For instance, contrary to your opinion, I find Dubltalk the most useful
speech I've ever found for fast and clear reading.  I use it over any and
all other speech, including Dec talk in any version.

There is not one rightspeech package for blind folks.  It's subject to
individual taste and one's actual practices, as for instance in my case
reading fast and understanding everything.

Will
wilsmith at iglou.com
  On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Sina
Bahram wrote:

> Are you serious? Wow, I thought DoubleTalk had to be the worst one
> ever....that's sad that hardware synths are so bad....
>
> Thanks for your reply
>
> Take care,
> Sina
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of nick G
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 11:32 AM
> To: sbahram at nc.rr.com; Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: A good synth?
>
>
> That's as good as it gets.  Doubletalk is second only to dectalk in the
> hardware arena in my opinion. Thanks, Nick
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram at nc.rr.com>
> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'"
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 11:05 AM
> Subject: A good synth?
>
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I need a good hardware synth. My employer is willing to spend around
>> 300 bucks or so....I need it to work with a variety of linux apps,
>> like
> SpeakUP
>> for sure, and possibly EmacSpeak as well. Also anything else that uses
>> a hardware synth if that's possible.
>>
>> What's a good one people? In my opinion the DoubleTalk's quality is
>> just
>> *shutter* but if that's the best for that price range, I guess I'll have
> to
>> go with that.
>>
>> Thank you all for any replies.
>>
>> Take care,
>> Sina
>>
>>
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