Hi! The inglish voices in the ivox set might be better than the swedish one. But i must say i really can not stand the ivox voices as they also have problems pronouncing. /A 18 jul 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. >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
