The developers have never been very open to the idea, but I think that's mostly because the Mac API for making a voice is complex. I've given it a try, a couple times, and didn't get far because I don't know enough about the mechanics of speech synthesis. On Aug 2, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Anders Holmberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi! > I've been wondering that since i got my mac and never got any answer on that. > Very disappointing. > /A > 2 aug 2014 kl. 18:53 skrev Devin Prater <[email protected]>: > >> Hi all. As a long-time user of both Windows and the mac, I keep wondering >> why eSpeak hasn't been ported to work with voiceover and the mac speech API. >> If Eloquence can be ported, why on earth can't eSpeak, being open source and >> a native linux program, be ported? Is Eloquence just that good, and mac >> users so into windows that Eloquence, a native windows app, just has to b >> ported, in a rather weird form with only one voice and a few weird bugs, >> rather than eSpeak, with its many languages, amazing pronounciation and >> configurability? And I don't want just a "type text and push that there play >> button and hear it talk" little toy app. I want it to be selectable in the >> VO speech pane of the utility, as a system voice, and usable in the say >> fuction of the terminal. Is that really, really too much to ask for of an >> open source program? If so, then open source is just as unreliable as >> regular freeware. >> -- >> Sent from Thunderbird using iCloud >> >> -- >> 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. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall [email protected] -- 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.
