[Dtb-talk] Reader Reviews?

[David Andrews]

Mike, If I am not mistaken, the Stream, and BookSense use Vocalizer 
from Nuance, their low-end small resource TTS.

Dave

At 08:51 AM 7/16/2011, you wrote:
>I don't remember which TTS the Book Port Plus uses but think it's the same
>as the Victor Reader Stream -- Realspeak Solo Direct. The BookSense uses
>Neospeech Paul and Kate. IMO it's the best for extensive listening although
>for thems of us who process a lot of text, it would be nice to have a small
>Daisy player with Eloquence though I suspect that the licensing fee would be
>prohibitive.
>
>Mike
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of Eric SS
>Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 4:05 AM
>To: 'Discussion of Digital Talking Books'
>Subject: [Dtb-talk] Reader Reviews?
>
>Would like to hear the various readers' TTS voices. That seems to be glossed
>over in most reviews I read or the one audio reader review I heard (I forget
>for which device).
>
>I would say at least 25% of my reading is HTML or TXT, so that becomes
>pretty important.
>
>Thanks for pointers to good information.
>
>Eric SS