Alex eats a lot of memory and cpu power. Because of this, it would
not be appropriate on Idevices, because they are low memory/low cpu
products. I'm not talking about the 16/32GB they talk about when
selling the devices, this is storge, not usable program memory. Alex
is large, because it's the most human sounding voice, and as a
result, it eats a lot of resources to get this quality. Lower
quality means smaller memory footprint, thus no alex on idevices.
Perhaps in future, it will be ported, when speech algorithms get
better, but for now, I wouldn't expect to see alex on iphone/ipad
anytime soon.
Besides, the voices it already has are (imo) quite good, and they've
been optimized for device usage, and do a decent job. I don't even
use alex on my pmac, because it eats too many resources I prefer to
leave open for other processes, but that's why apple provides
different voices, everyone can choose whichever voice works best for
them.
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