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ChromeVox Lois TTS is difficult to hear, comprehend, and use for any period of time #36

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Increase speech rate to max and change pitch
2. Navigate, review, and read Gmail, Google search results, etc for a while.

What is the expected output? 
ChromeVox Lois or any TTS should be very clear, intelligible, and understood 
within most environments.
What do you see instead?
ChromeVox Lois is very difficult to hear, understand, is not clear, distorted, 
muffled, and awful.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Google Chrome 14 stable on Windows 7 x64
Google Chrome Canary 16 on OS X Lion

Please provide any additional information below.
This alone will make people not use ChromeVox or any Chrome web app. eSpeak 
should be brought over. Alternatively, elloquence is preferred by most users 
and would make ChromeVox adoption sky rocket.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by KevinCha...@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2011 at 8:16

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
The Pico voice, which Lois is, is mostly designed for small speakers, or so 
I've been told and mostly used for Android. I agree it needs some work for 
headphone users/desktop speakers though, and becomes muffled even more at 
highest speech rate.

Original comment by linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2011 at 8:29

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
This voice will not improve. However, we will definitely be supporting more 
voices in the future.

Original comment by dmazz...@google.com on 11 Nov 2011 at 6:03