Text-To-Speech on Phones: Nuance Talks

[Shawn Keen]

Hi,

I've tried both talks and mobile speak,  Talks I use on my Nokia 6620 and I 
tried mobile speak on a nokia 6682.  Using dectalk speech I found it very 
sluggish,  with talks when you hit a key you hear the function of that key 
and I didn't see the same type of responsiveness with MS. Mostly a lot of 
hangs and stuttering speech and a few lockups.

I wasn't aware of the custom menus problem, maybe that was early in it's 
development.

  I didn't try it with any other synths besides dectalk so maybe that was 
the problem but after giving it a week of using it I was ready to wait till 
I could afford to get talks on my 6682.

I like how code factory has a screen reader for the pDA's.  that is 
something I was real interested in looking at. and from the demos I've herd 
of it sounds real nice.  Hopefully it's a more stable program.




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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: Text-To-Speech on Phones: Nuance Talks


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> - From what I recall hearing on acb radio's main menu a while back, the
> problem with mobile-speak vs. talx is that it doesn't give you access
> to all the menu options of the phone, rather, it presents you with its
> own custom menu, as opposed to the phone's actual menu. Has this
> changed, or is that still true?
>
> Also, on a scale of hundreds, and in some cases thousands of dollars,
> 46 dollars more isn't too much of a difference, especially if it means
> that you can access more of what the phone has to offer.
>
> Greg
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> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:17:50AM -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> If you are going to push commercial screen readers, you should mention
>> both.
>>
>> Mobile-speak is also available for the same phones that run talks and it
>> is cheaper.  I bought it for only $249 instead of $295.  Mobile-speak
>> also supports more software synths than talks.
>>
>> http://codefactory.es
>>
>>           Kenny
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