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When sighted people discover text to speech (youtube.com)
submitted 5.280705889917695y ago by redstone1337
redstone1337 [OP] 2 points 5y ago
I noticed the video was uploaded in 2010. I suppose with AI assistants like Siri and Alexa the concept isn't really alien to the public anymore. I remember friends and classmates wanting me to make ZoomText swear and stuff back in the day.
I really miss synths like DECtalk (the one in the video) as well as Truvoice and Eloquence. They sounded less "human" but were more discernible at high speeds, and their pronunciation was more predictable. The only ones like that which are still around are Eloquence, but it's pretty expensive nowadays, and maybe macintalk voices like Fred and Ralph. Espeak kind of fits, but I find it too harsh to listen to books with, and all the voices sound like a British person imitating other accents.
I really miss synths like DECtalk (the one in the video) as well as Truvoice and Eloquence. They sounded less "human" but were more discernible at high speeds, and their pronunciation was more predictable. The only ones like that which are still around are Eloquence, but it's pretty expensive nowadays, and maybe macintalk voices like Fred and Ralph. Espeak kind of fits, but I find it too harsh to listen to books with, and all the voices sound like a British person imitating other accents.
-shacklebolt- 1 points 5y ago
Just in case you don't know, Eloquence is available for Android (through the play store, you could use it in talkback and certain self-voicing apps when I had an android phone) for around $20, and as a plug-in for NVDA for around $70.
redstone1337 [OP] 1 points 5y ago
I have an iPhone, and $70 is a bit spendy.
bradley22 1 points 5y ago
You can get Eloquence for free for NVDA. If you go to https://jeff.tdrealms.com/index.php?page=NVDA then use your h key until you here Eloquence 3.3 for NVDA. Then, use h again to jump to the next heading and you should come across the standard Eloquence driver for NVDA.
redstone1337 [OP] 1 points 5y ago
"Author: NVDA User" ... Sounds sketchy. Can you vouch for its safety?
aleeque 1 points 5y ago
Text to speech has been used in memes for a long time.
Wysiwyg25 1 points 5y ago
True that!
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