I tried in the BHS to read aloud and the voice simply stated the chapter number and kept moving rapidly. Can Logos 4 read aloud the passage in Hebrew and by the same token with a Greek New Testament can it read aloud in Greek?
It is possible for the Greek, http://www.logos.com/product/4207/greek-audio-new-testament, not certain about the Hebrew.
There are other resouces that are available online although they are chapter based.. some are:
http://aoal.org/hebrew_audiobible.htm
http://www.helding.net/greeklatinaudio/greek/
Hebrew's not available currently.
The logos reading of my Greek N.T. is nonsensical. Certainly not Greek. Any ideas how to fix this?
Help, Mark!
You have to buy the Greek Audio New Testament which Lynden linked to above.
For English text, Logos relies on Windows built-in text-to-speech synthesiser, but this doesn't support Greek. So for the Greek Audio New Testament Logos recorded someone actually reading the text. It sounds much better than the English!
Thanks, Mark. What a blessing you are to so many of us. Sincerely, Steven.
If any future Hebrew "audio" is planned, I reeeaaaallly HOPE they don't make the grave mistake of basing the recordings on Modern Hebrew. It would really be far better that they just not bother. The problem is that Modern Hebrew has metastasized into a thing that has inherent flaws, particularly when you begin to delve into Biblical Hebrew. An odd situation, but true nonetheless.
I'm not saying people should pronounce Hebrew exactly like I do (though they could certainly do worse). But I absolutely believe they should avoid pronunciations that are systematically bogus...which Modern Hebrew cannot avoid.
David,
The same arguments are quite heated over Biblical Greek (Erasmian, Modern, Modified Erasmian. Randall Buth's model, etc...)
Without being up on all the arguments regarding Hebrew variant pronunciations I'd wager that the camps would argue just as passionately in their various directions.
Come to think of it, I'd LOVE a resource that might explain the various Hebrew prononciation questions. Have a suggestion?
I downloaded the Hebrew Bible in audio MP3s some time ago from a website in Israel, but it no longer appears there.
Variations in reading text are inevitable. To paraphrase a common joke among Jewish believers that if there are two readers, there are three ways to say it. One reader does it one way, the second reader prefers the second way. Both agree they will never say it the third way. [:D]
If any future Hebrew "audio" is planned, I reeeaaaallly HOPE they don't make the grave mistake of basing the recordings on Modern Hebrew. It would really be far better that they just not bother. The problem is that Modern Hebrew has metastasized into a thing that has inherent flaws, particularly when you begin to delve into Biblical Hebrew. An odd situation, but true nonetheless. I'm not saying people should pronounce Hebrew exactly like I do (though they could certainly do worse). But I absolutely believe they should avoid pronunciations that are systematically bogus...which Modern Hebrew cannot avoid.
It depends on your background and where you are using it. In Israel I learned to read the \Bible in modern Hebrew - incidentally modern Hebrew can be divided into at least Ashkenazi and Sephardi dialects.... Ditto Greek. As I have changed my pronunciation of biblical greek since living near Greece and learning some modern Greek and doing Bible study sometimes with Greek Believers, I couldn't get on with the excellent Logos audio NT, but the helding one is just what I need and can and do use with benefit. I think we need to be practical, rather than dogmatic, as different factors are more important for different people in different circumstances. [:)]
