Hi, I know exactly what you mean. None of the voices are clear and reliable on pronunciation. For this, and other reasons, I'm currently trying Moira, the Irish voice, but if you need a male for hearing reasons, she is not an option. Have you tried Lee, Tom etc? Go to vo utility, speech, voices, and when you get to default voice, go in there and go to customise. In there, you can hear samples of every voice Apple have, to see if one works. Otherwise, if none of them do, you might want to try Infovox Ivox voices, though these are expensive.
Cheers Dave On 18 Jul 2014, at 13:17, Daniel McGee <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, I was just simply wondering, regarding to whatever english voice you > use with Voiceover are there at all times, where say your reading a piece of > text from Safari and you miss hear the odd word hear and there. > > I'm sorry if that isn't descriptive or thought out more but to just to > explain what I mean further. If, and I'm going to say it, used eloquence, I > don't know why but that particular TTS have never gone wrong for me in the > form of pronunciation. Where as in contrast, as much as I try to use Alex or > any of the other male TTS voices that are available, I find now and then, > that I'll miss a word or two when navigating around the web reviewing what > I've written etc. Just wondered if I'm the only one. > It is weird because I have my rate level set to 40% and I don't want to go > down to 35% but with say Elequence, I could comfortably have that around the > 45% mark and not miss a thing. > > So your thoughts are most welcome. Another possibility is that I'm also > hearing in pared and wondered if this could have any baring on why I may miss > certain words now and again. Its kind of frustrating at times which is why I > wondered if it was just me. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
