Hi Esther, Well, I suppose we could buy them, since they don't offer demos unless you request them, and even then it's not always the case they let you download one. That having been said, since the prices seem to be the same for both Windows and OS X now which is a lot more reasonable, it wouldn't break the bank.
That aside, I doubt it'll be as good as Infovox ivox, unfortunately. I tried building a speech synth upon Apple's instructions, and that didn't get as good results as the work with Infovox. I don't know how Assistiveware managed to make it work as well as it does, but at any rate, that'd certainly be useful information for other developers such as Ivona, who's also very interested in making it work well with VoiceOver. Regards, Nicolai On May 4, 2013, at 1:58 PM, Esther <mori...@mac-access.net> wrote: > Hi, > I answered a post about other voices for the Mac a few weeks ago with this > information. I also had one of the Cereproc voices from the same period that > Nic describes, and I had to delete it because it crashed VoiceOver on my Mac. > I quite liked the voice, which was one of their Scottish voices, and It may > have been possible to use it for TTS only, but I noticed that my Mac froze up > on one occasion (not just the VoiceOver crashes), so I had to uninstall it. > > On the other hand, I noted that Cereproc built a custom voice for the late > film critic, Roger Ebert, who had to use his Mac and VoiceOver as a > substitute voice when he lost the ability to speak in one of the operations > for cancer of the larynx. Maybe they've improved? He certainly couldn't have > used their voice for him if it froze up his Mac as much as it did for us. > > I'd like to know if the Cereproc voices are a reasonable option now, because > I did like the sound of the voice. If I were being mischievous though, I'd > ask whether Siri has difficulty understanding the voice > > Josh, if you want to hear what their voices for Obama and Bush are like, you > can get either the free iSpeech Obama or iSpeech Bush iOS apps. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On May 3, 2013, at 11:21 PM, Nicolai Svendsen <chojiro1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I tried this with VoiceOver, and they were absolutely terrible to work with. >> I'd maybe hear one phrase spoken, then the voice would crash. Even then, the >> voice was truly unresponsive, even if I used the voice without VoiceOver. >> >> I just had another look, and it seems that the male voices disappeared for >> British English. It has been a while since I tried these, but at the time >> they didn't seem very interested in hearing my crash logs, but that might >> have changed. >> >> Regards, >> Nicolai >> On May 4, 2013, at 8:29 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith >> <ly...@mac-access.net> wrote: >> >>> Hello everybody >>> >>> Have any of you tried the CereProc voices for OS X? These voices are >>> developed by a company based in Scotland, here in the UK. They do several >>> voices and also have a number of companies who have incorporated the voices >>> into their own solutions. They are so good that I bought Gordon a couple of >>> them. They are almost as good as the Acapella voices and, at just over £21 >>> each, they are a snip at the price. >>> You can find the voices here: >>> <http://www.cereproc.com/> >>> >>> I would be interested to hear any informed opinion. >>> >>> He >>> >> > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that > the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free. 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