Post by @NightDrake@dragonscave.space

2026-07-16 18:09 UTC

@EJGilbert@dragonscave.space I liked the Dectalk voices when I'd read on the Kurzweil when I was a kid and young teen. But these days there are voices that sound so much better. I don't understand why people insist on using Eloquence and other such old voices when there are voices that are much more clear and sound better. Eloquence and maybe even Dectalk is great for people who may have hearing loss's and such. I can't at all deny that. But sometimes i feel like many many people are just stuck in the old days when it comes to such things. It's kinda like why beat a dead horse. @bmoore123@tweesecake.social @mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca @mewproj@fwoof.space

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@DavidGoldfield@allovertheplace.ca 2026-07-16 18:15

@NightDrake@dragonscave.space @EJGilbert@dragonscave.space @bmoore123@tweesecake.social @mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca @mewproj@fwoof.space Eloquence has some definite advantages. It is not only responsive but it is very easy to understand at very high speeds .. and I do mean very high speeds, since the voice does not degrade in quality. There is also a certain consistency in the more robotic voices that you don't get even with more human-sounding voices. I use Vocalizer Tom with JAWS. For me, it's certainly clear but sometimes it occasionally inserts extra consonants that just are not present in the text, whereas some of the older, more robotic voices just don't do this.

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@EJGilbert@dragonscave.space 2026-07-16 18:34

@NightDrake@dragonscave.space @bmoore123@tweesecake.social @mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca @mewproj@fwoof.space I use the eloquence voice because I like hearing the exclamations in writing.

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@bmoore123@tweesecake.social 2026-07-16 19:56

@NightDrake@dragonscave.space @EJGilbert@dragonscave.space @mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca @mewproj@fwoof.space I have not found anything that is as easy to understand at high speed. I am so accustomed to it that I even use it at slower speed for etext books.

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