Hi.

Most of the time i use
the voices from infovox. I use heather and the danish voices. They are not 
really expensive anymore, you can buy them for a reasonable price. You will not 
have to pay upgrades all the time, mine is very old, and they have been 
upgraded a lot of times.


Best regards Annie.Den 18/07/2014 kl. 14.51 skrev David Taylor 
<[email protected]>:

> 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.
>> 
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