[Athen] other alternatives to Kurzweil?

[Robert Spangler]

Does Kurzweil not allow the use of the Windows OneCore voices that come
with Windows 10?  We use Read and Write, and it permits us to choose from
the voices installed on the system.  You could then install any voice you
want and be able to choose it if Kurzweil allows this flexibility.


On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 7:05 PM Kevin Andrews <kejandre at ucsc.edu> wrote:


> Hi all,

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> I met with a student who I've seen before. They are finding the voices

> very difficult with Kurzweil and from our discussion, they have tried a

> variety of voices, different rates of speech, etc, and reported disliking

> the robotic-sounding voices, not maintaining inflection appropriately, etc.

> We talked about Learning Ally, but just given a couple of the titles, I

> don't know this will be feasible since LA does not always carry the

> titles--as is the case for the one title they were able to give me already

> thus far.

>

> Does anyone have any other suggestions? It seems computerized voices are

> problematic for the student. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated

> here.

>

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