About the Text to Speech on the Pocket Pro - Page 2

tdproffitt · 08-29-2009, 05:02 PM

I found this review of the Hanlin v5. If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the review, they have a video of the unit in TTS mode. The voice is female and sounds similar to what you hear on GPS units. I expect that the EZReader Pro would sound the same (can't see Jinke changing it for a particular reseller).

http://ebookreaderv.blogspot.com/200...in-v5-hot.html

GA Russell · 08-29-2009, 06:42 PM

Thanks Zelda and Harry!

keng2000 · 08-31-2009, 11:37 AM

The V5 TTS voice is Female human voice on both English and Chinese.
She read very clear and quite easy for listening on earphone.

HarryT · 08-31-2009, 11:40 AM

Can an uninflected TTS voice really work for Chinese? I would have thought that, for a "tonal" language like Chinese, inflections were absolutely essential! Or does it have them?

sian · 09-03-2009, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Robertb

Dear All:

Dear sian:

I am sure you and your friend will be pleased and will find it a valuable aid!

we cant wait, we have a kindle 2, we order the pocket pro last week the good with kindle is its got a keyboard (i have some dificuitly holding the stylus on my pda so the keyboard was good idea . kindle 2 has peech which is invaluble. all tts have some degree of improvement and we were using this as our guide for the pocket pro.)

i can wait to be able to use the multible forrmats on the pocket pro. this and the sd card is what missing from the kindle2. the funny thing was i looked at the ereader.com site but my comp decided to close down while the site was loading . if that hadnt happened we would never got a kindle 2.

im itching to get pp.

DaleDe · 09-06-2009, 01:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

Can an uninflected TTS voice really work for Chinese? I would have thought that, for a "tonal" language like Chinese, inflections were absolutely essential! Or does it have them?

TTS can have tonal features. The basic problem is that it cannot be based on content or relationship between words except as defined by a separate specialized phrase list.

Dale

sian · 09-06-2009, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by sian

I love the txt to speech on the ez reader (5 -"pocket pro) and the 20+ ebook formats. Im disabled and find i use the read to me option all the time . my partner visiual impared so it alson means he can read his ebooks again now. where as in the past he had lots of ebooks but no way to read em.

because i and my partner user tts alot we have both found that we can roughtly guess how it will sound on a new device. we are awaiting the delivery of our pocket pro.

we love tts hope manufactures dont forget that there are people in the world who use tts as a aid to everyday life.

if it was taken off it would be like me not using my power chair to get about
we love the fact astak poket pro has multiple ebook formats
which was why we chose it

it mean alot more choice for us and i struggle to find converters for my kindle 2
im so excited

ps wonder how manufactures would make a braille ebook read like the pocket pro my parner doesn't like audio cd books.

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08-29-2009, 05:02 PM	#16
tdproffitt Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 48 Join Date: Feb 2008 Device: Cybook Gen3/Palm TX	I found this review of the Hanlin v5. If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the review, they have a video of the unit in TTS mode. The voice is female and sounds similar to what you hear on GPS units. I expect that the EZReader Pro would sound the same (can't see Jinke changing it for a particular reseller). http://ebookreaderv.blogspot.com/200...in-v5-hot.html

08-29-2009, 06:42 PM	#17
GA Russell Montreal wins Grey Cup! Posts: 7,583 Karma: 31484197 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Raleigh, NC Device: Paperwhite, Kindles 10 & 4 and jetBook Lite	Thanks Zelda and Harry!

08-31-2009, 11:37 AM	#18
keng2000 Researcher and Consultant Posts: 210 Karma: 364 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Bangkok, THAILAND Device: MACBOOKPRO17" HP2400TX SONYUX27	The V5 TTS voice is Female human voice on both English and Chinese. She read very clear and quite easy for listening on earphone.

08-31-2009, 11:40 AM	#19
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Can an uninflected TTS voice really work for Chinese? I would have thought that, for a "tonal" language like Chinese, inflections were absolutely essential! Or does it have them?