Hey guys, those of you interested in Hebrew, I'm pretty sure there's a few, I learned something today. There's an open source speech to text engine that is configured to read Israeli Hebrew. It's called Qaryan Hebrew TTS. Now, here's what I know. It's free to download and like I said, open source. I do not know yet if it works with voiceover, but I imagine it probably could with some initial work and testing. Here's the other thing, it's initially configured to run off of linux for the mac, or windows. I think it can be worked for OS 10 also, but can't tell yet. Now, would any of you who want to ultimately have a Hebrew screen reading voice that works with voiceover wanna work with me to try and see if we could ever make this Qaryan Hebrew TTS thing work? I'd bet that if we got our heads together, we could work it out alright and then we'd have ourselves a Hebrew voice for voiceover. Anybody interested? Laurel On Dec 10, 2013, at 12:48 AM, meadowlark77 <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm with you there. Hebrew would be beautiful with our iPhone. Why not? > > Take care, > > Brenda > > mailto:[email protected] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Laurel and Stockard" <[email protected]> > To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 12:20 AM > Subject: Hebrew and voiceover/braille was Re: how does apple create > it'svoiceover voices? > > > Yeah, note I just changed the subject. :-) I love Hebrew, and it's slightly > disappointing to me that there's no voiceover voice for Hebrew, and the mac > doesn't support Hebrew braille. If they can do Arabic, they can do Hebrew. > Do any of you ever see Apple adding additional languages like Hebrew in the > future? Or could they be finished for the mean time adding new languages. > Laurel > On Dec 10, 2013, at 12:11 AM, meadowlark77 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You speak Hebrew? Me, too. I'd love that. >> >> Take care, >> >> Brenda >> >> mailto:[email protected] >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Laurel and Stockard" <[email protected]> >> To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 8:55 PM >> Subject: Re: how does apple create it's voiceover voices? >> >> >> That's true, but I would love to learn more about specifically how voices >> are recorded to build text to speach engines. One of my bucket list life >> dreams would be to work creating voiceover voices in other languages that >> I >> speak, like Hebrew for example. >> Laurel >> On Dec 9, 2013, at 8:49 PM, Josh Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> It's probably a lot to do though… >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On Dec 9, 2013, at 9:40 PM, Laurel and Stockard >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Oh that's cool, so I'm assuming that even for the different languages >>>> and >>>> all, they just hire a voice actor to say a bunch of stuff, and then they >>>> put it together into a voice? Cool! I'd love to do something like that. >>>> :-) lol >>>> Laurel >>>>> On Dec 9, 2013, at 8:35 PM, Josh Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Yeah there's a video of it on YouTube, I think it actually shows how >>>>> they create the Alison voice that is now used in Mavericks. >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>>> On Dec 9, 2013, at 9:32 PM, Sarah k Alawami <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> If I’m not mistaken the voices for apple are made by Nuance. I >>>>>> recognize all of them from various apps and all of that that I’ve used >>>>>> over the year. the only exception is Alex. They put the voice actuer >>>>>> in >>>>>> a studio and had them read a lot of phrase and numbers and stuff. Iv’e >>>>>> done something similar and it’s not fun, but it is worth it in the >>>>>> end. >>>>>> >>>>>> Take care. >>>>>>> On Dec 9, 2013, at 6:25 PM, Laurel and Stockard >>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Ok, sorry, but curiosity got the best of me. As my subject says, how >>>>>>> does apple create it's voiceover voices? >>>>>>> I got to thinking about all the screen reader voices out there, >>>>>>> particularly Apple's voiceover, but also JAWS, SAPI screen reader >>>>>>> voices, NVDA, Window Eyes, etc. With regards to voiceover, I was >>>>>>> looking at the large variety of voices that they've put out, both in >>>>>>> different languages and just with in one language, take U.S. English, >>>>>>> or French for example. How does a company like Apple build these >>>>>>> voices? Does it totally rely on voice over actors that they record? >>>>>>> Or >>>>>>> is there some program out there that serves as the basis for their >>>>>>> voices that they create? >>>>>>> Further, I got to thinking, if a person wanted to build their own >>>>>>> voiceover compatible voice, say in English or another language, is >>>>>>> that possible? 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