Ok, and how the "dumb" user know which fork is the one to use ? HE DOESNT CARE!
He wants to setup his printer ONE time, not 2. Not even 3 times when he founds out his first try went smoother than the third.
IMHO,
the best commercial tts is speechify from speechworks ( www.speechworks.com ). It is extremely stable stable too ( on i386-solaris and redhat7.2 at least ) . If you check a TTS demo make sure you can input your own sentences so you are sure the utterances aren't 'tuned'.
Ok, and how the "dumb" user know which fork is the one to use ? HE DOESNT CARE! He wants to setup his printer ONE time, not 2. Not even 3 times when he founds out his first try went smoother than the third.
IMHO, the best commercial tts is speechify from speechworks ( www.speechworks.com ). It is extremely stable stable too ( on i386-solaris and redhat7.2 at least ) . If you check a TTS demo make sure you can input your own sentences so you are sure the utterances aren't 'tuned'.