i like alex he is so cool smiley 
krystal watson
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On 01/10/2012, at 1:50 AM, Travis Siegel <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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