- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:38:16 -0800
- To: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>, "Will Pearson" <will-pearson@tiscali.co.uk>,<uvip@yahoogroups.com>, <wai-xtech@w3.org>
At 10:57 AM 12/28/2004, Al Gilman wrote: >The speech is unnatural, but not under-performing The old guy chimes in with anecdotal info: After a comparatively brief learn-ramp, many (most/all?) of my blind pals much prefer synthesized speech for accessing information from a computer. They'd maybe rather hear a professional actor reading books of a certain persuasion to them but that's so much too slow for acquiring information other than the art of the prose/poetry situation that it's not even close. "Expression" just gets in the way at 600 wpm. As to all the phonemicity interchanges: it's more like talking about the difference between "country" and "western" than about the difference 'twixt country/western and rock/roll. And of course the "jazz truth" transcends all that! I'd rather hear from Janina about this than from me, but I couldn't stay out. -- Love. Everyone/everything/everywhere/always connected -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.6.4 - Release Date: 12/22/2004
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