Yes I have tried the rest of the male voices in the collection but I keep 
either coming back to Alex or Daniel. They seem at least to my ears, to be more 
understandable. I have tried the female ones but with them I find a lot of the 
time I'll miss a lot of words and by then I've completely lost sense of the 
text being spoken aloud. I'm glad there are some here who know how I feel about 
these voices as they do too.




On 18 Jul 2014, at 16:21, Annie Skov Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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