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Originally Posted by lanceman
I have a Sennheiser HD-202. Not a high end model, but I think it should be good enough to handle regular usages. I know that to judge the sound quality is a very subjective matter. I hope that the complains I had are not because I am too picky. 
Besides all the features, form factor, etc. that made me decide to choose PP, I think knowing that there is a trustworthy person from the product company actively helping people here is also a big factor. Thanks Robert! I really appreciate your responsiveness. Like I mentioned from the beginning, music player is not my big concern. But I think TTS can become a big one to me. I will contact your tech support later to figure things out. 
Hi, Acreo. Thanks for the advices. I will give it a try. As of my reply to Robert, you think HD-202 is ok? I guess because of my limitation on the language, my description might lead you to think of the distortion. Let me try to explain it again. If I use TTS, the voice I heard seems to be broken into two layers. The foreground layer is the normal voice. But the other layer is a sharp/acute sound (It's a synchronized voice to the foreground one) that is really annoying. Why cannot I just get one tone of voice but two? Maybe it's normal to TTS but at least it sounds way too different from my Garmin GPS's voice |
Dear Lanceman:
Thank you. Astak is always concerned about the end user experience. We are not perfect and still learning our way. I just like to try to help people. I know my own experiences with other companies and do not want that for Astak.
Yes, my first real experience with machine voice was also GPS. The parent company of Astak made almost all GPS mapping SD cards for years and years. Almost all mapping data was duplicated by us in the hundreds of millions and put out on our own cards. We still do. My first job with the parent company was talking with these GPS companies. Like you, my Magellen and my Whistler have very clear voices.
TTS on eBook Readers is NOT close to that. Soon, likely, but nowhere near that at present. TTS is clear enough to be understandable and I love it on a long plane trip... but on a scale of 1-10 it is barely a 6. Certainly a blessing... but not what I would call much more than adequate. The problem is not background noise though.. the problem is more a very much machine voice. I am trying to be honest here. Unlike other manufacturers that never seem to tell the bad with the good... I think there are things that I would like to see improved. This cannot be improved with a firmware upgrade; but new models will hopefully have more improvement of a nice feature.