Hmmm...good point. Must admit that i get a bit twitchy as well, especially if loud. Even gives a fright
Must say i'm not feeling good enough bout this to invest time in at the moment.
Hmmm...good point. Must admit that i get a bit twitchy as well, especially if loud. Even gives a fright
Must say i'm not feeling good enough bout this to invest time in at the moment.
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I feel that a website is about information and speed. Give the right information when requested and keep it simple! You cannot imagine the frustration when you go to a site and all you see is install this and do that to get it going and in the end of the day they give you limited information and you downloaded 100mb of useless plug-ins that corrupts your browser.
Annoying annoying annoying annoying.....did I mention annoying! I will not even investigate a good idea if someone is going to shove their plastic PR voice down my sensitive auditory canal.
I don't think it speeds things up - they need to enunciate and look at the camera - I read 15 times faster than that...
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I also agree - its dreadful annoying stuff.
Anybody had one of those early morning reminder type automated voice messages, on your landline, cause the people using the system have not put a cell phone number into their system for an sms.
You are just waking up and the phone goes......as you say 'hello'...this is freds toast and coffee services, this grinding american drawl has already started up with a bunch of words that goes straight into a reminder for an appointment....I think because I have usually put the phone down by that stage.
Talk about a rude awakening.
From my side, I normally have my sound switched off. Even the funny blurp my accounting package makes when I make an entry gently annoys me. About the only time I switch the sound on is if I follow a link to a recommended Youtube video.
Whilst the evidence against deploying a talking website climbs, I see the idea as potentially useful for a visually impaired visitor. But I suspect people with this need will have software already loaded that deals with text to speech anyway.
Judging by the posts so far, it's going to have to be really real or forget it.
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