Hello all, Technicly, there is a way of incorporating the Hebrew voice into Mac OS X. This can be done with Carmit - the voice that you are talking about. But, it envolves writing this voice in a way that will be recognized by the speech manager interface. It is totally possible because Apple uses Vocalizer Expressive already, so you have just to write Carmit and wrap it with a wrapper. But, the version you have for NVDA is not that good, because Apple uses a more recent version of the TTS in OS X and even in iOS, NVDA uses V1.1 and Apple uses V1.3 and they can not work together. There is currently a development going on here in Israel, which I have not tested but heard on a machine of somebuddy who is trying to get it around. But, this development requires an investment, and I think it will be the best to wait until WWDC because there are currently discussions with Apple going on for them to build it into iOS and OS X. I'll update you when I'll have more information.
Best regards, Rafi. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laurel and Stockard Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 9:26 PM To: OS X & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Hebrew voices, thoughts and question? Ok, I did find it with vocalizer for NVDA. So, question, can you get NVDA voices and use them with other things, Voiceover etc? I feel like short of just using a program like VM Fusion and windows on the mac, there's gotta be some kind of work around. I feel like there's probably some back door type way to get this voice installed on a mac, it's just, we haven't found it yet. Thoughts? Laurel On May 8, 2014, at 9:40 AM, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote: > This voice is very good, from the little I know about Hebrew. It is for NVDA. > Salome in Yeshuah. > > >> On May 7, 2014, at 21:56, Laurel and Stockard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> I ran across an interesting piece of information today regarding a Hebrew voice for text to speech solutions. Apparently, Nuance has developed recently and put out a Hebrew voice, named Carmit. This voice is available on windows and Android platforms. Now, what makes this interesting is that from what my research taught me, Apple actually uses Nuance as a voice provider. Most of my voices that I use with voiceover are in fact Nuance voices. Tarik, the Arabic voice, and Aurelie, the French voice, are 2 examples of this, as well as the English South African voice. >> Now, apparently all that Apple would have to do it would seem to make the Hebrew Carmit voice available would be to add it to its Nuance voice server. It seems that this could be rather an easy fix for Apple, especially since they already use a tun of Nuance voices. >> Question 1, what do you guys think? Is this a possible solution? I know there are a small group of us that really want a Hebrew voice. >> question 2, do any of you know if it's possible to somehow get a Nuance voice, like this Hebrew one, on the mac through some 3rd party means? I wish there was a way I could try and make it work. >> Anyway, I'm interested in you alls thoughts on this. 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