Actually I don't believe that's a Cepstral voice. That's one of the specific Apple voices if I'm not mistaken. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 7:23 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] USA Games Engine was gma game engine
>I think the one for mac is cepstral alex, that's what I heard on > a podcast, and it actually breathes after every sentence or to. > Nice, eh? Is that available for windows too? > > > > > >> ----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Bryan Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected] >>Date sent: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:08:24 -0600 >>Subject: Re: [Audyssey] USA Games Engine was gma game engine > >>I wonder if the Cepstral voices would work on a Mac machine? I > seem to >>remember seeing links for that on their downloads page. I > suppose then the >>only problem would be finding good, accessible games and software > of the >>same caliber as what's on Windows. It's funny, but I remember > one time we >>were having trouble with my PC back when I was still using Win98 > Second >>Edition and my dad threatening to buy me a Mac. That was back in > the days >>when the speech output was still crap though. And as for games I > don't even >>know if there were any, leastways any that we could play. >>Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected] >>Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 8:50 AM >>Subject: Re: [Audyssey] USA Games Engine was gma game engine > > >>> Hi Bryan and all, >>> I'd like to make a couple of corrections about the Mac. I've > seen a few >>> comments based on very old out dated information that is no > longer true >>> for Mac OS. So I'd like to spend the next couple of paragraphs > to point >>> out some of these changes. >>> First, the Outspoken screen reader for Mac no longer exists. It > was >>> discontinued sometime around the time Mac OS X came out. Apple > has made >>> its own sscreen reader, VoiceOver, which is built directly into > Mac OS >>> Tiger and Mac OS Leopard. >>> There are many advantages that VoiceOver has over Outspoken. > One of >>> these is because VoiceOver is intigrated into the Mac OS > installation >>> you can install Mac OS with speech. You never have to depend on > someone >>> else to help you install the operating system. >>> Second, it is true under Mac OS 9 and earlier the Apple voices > were not >>> very good. Under Mac OS 10.4 and later the speech quality is as > good as >>> if not better than Windows TTS engines. I've recently had a > chance to >>> play with VoiceOver on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard and it is extremely >>> responsive. The TTS engines are extremely good. >>> Third, a lot of people are all too quick to point out there is > more >>> software for Windows than Mac. This is true in some respects, > but there >>> is a lot of Mac stuff out there that probably goes unnoticed. > One reason >>> is not every computer store nation wide carries Mac stuff. You > usually >>> have to go to a special Mac dealer to get Mac software and > hardware. >>> Some dealers carry both, but they aren't as many as those > exclusively >>> selling Windows based PC software and hardware. >>> Another reason Mac OS software may go unnoticed is that there is > a lot >>> more open source applications for Mac then there is for Windows. > Since >>> it is open source it doesn't ship with the OS or come on a cd > from a >>> computer store. You will need to download it from the internet, > run it >>> through the Mac compilers, and install it. No problem for guys > like me >>> who have been doing this for 10 years on Linux. > >>> Bryan Peterson wrote: >>>> And I don't know if it's improved much since the days when I was > forced >>>> to >>>> use it by the fact that my High School's computer lab was all > Mac, but I >>>> absolutely hated OutSpoken. I could hardly understand the darn > thing most >>>> of >>>> the time. And that annoying crackling noise it always made > didn't help >>>> any. >>>> Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. > > > >>> --- >>> Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >>> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >>> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >>> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management > of the >>> list, >>> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >>--- >>Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >>If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >>http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >>All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >>http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of > the list, >>please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. 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