People who use OS X in languages other than English have no choice but to use 
these voices as there are no native Apple voices in other than American 
English. I still use Fred! But I use Thomas in French. He's not too bad.

Cheers,

Anne


On 16 Oct 2014, at 20:37, David Griffith <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have changed the subject line as we were drifting into OS.
> The scansoft voices are the modern voices introduced in Lion as I recall it. 
> That is voices like Daniel, tom, Samantha etc.
> 
> My experience is that my 2011 iMac    is snappier with Alex.
> 
> I used to have different voices for Mail and Safari etc under activities and 
> my Mac started to crawl. after I went to Mavericks So I got rid of all 
> activities and just use Alex and I have a fast  Mac again.
> 
> David griffith 

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