Yeah, and he's pretty good, too, I think. Take care,
Brenda mailto:[email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Caitlyn and Maggie" <[email protected]> To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 5:20 PM Subject: Re: voices for the mac, African American English dialect Oh, thanks, Brenda, for that. I just couldn’t remember where I’d seen the voice and what he was called! Cait On Dec 10, 2013, at 1:11 PM, Laurel and Stockard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, could you post a link to the voice stream website? I've never > actually heard of them, and would like to check this out. > Laurel > On Dec 10, 2013, at 10:59 AM, meadowlark77 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It's in the Voice Dream software. I bought that voice. The name is Saul. >> He's good. >> >> Take care, >> >> Brenda >> >> mailto:[email protected] >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Caitlyn and Maggie" <[email protected]> >> To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 7:12 AM >> Subject: Re: voices for the mac, African American English dialect >> >> >> I thought that there was at least one out there that had an african >> american >> type inflection, but can’t remember right now which one it is.. >> >> without going to each speech company and having a listen again, I’m >> stumped, >> though. I think the name was Will or something like that. >> >> hth, >> Cait >> >> On Dec 10, 2013, at 1:03 AM, richie Gardenhire >> <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I am sure that Apple and other companies will be looking for people to >>> use >>> as "sampler" voices for future, screenreader or text-to-speech programs. >>> As an African-American, myself, I would like nothing better, male or >>> female, although African-American female voices are probably harder to >>> pin >>> a dialect down because of different inflexions from various parts of the >>> country. >>> >>> Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska. >>> >>> >>> On Dec 9, 2013, at 7:19 PM, Laurel and Stockard wrote: >>> >>>> Hey guys, >>>> Sorry for all the questions tonight, I'm just doing a lot of computer >>>> work. Now, this'll be the last one, I promise. :-) >>>> I know the subject sounds weird, but I have a friend who is looking for >>>> a >>>> voice for voiceover on the mac that speaks, in her words, more of an >>>> African American sounding dialect. You know, we have lots of voices out >>>> there from different dialects from the U.K. and even South African, >>>> Australian and Indian English. 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