I do love Alex on the Mac, then again I've always used Alex there. Even though I can also use him on my iPhone, I tend to stick to Karen the Australian voice, on the phone. Foolishly perhaps, these decisions, I think are based more on what feels right than on the effectiveness of any given voice on the particular platform. When of use the HQ Karen on my Mac, that just doesn't feel right either. ;)
Sent from my iPhone On 11 Feb 2015, at 3:50 am, Anders Holmberg <[email protected]> wrote: Hi! One thing i don’t like is that we who does not speak english as a main language only can use nuance voices and acapella. I think also the svox voices for swedish is available for mac. I don’t know if ivona has swedish included and if they have a mac version. /A > 9 feb 2015 kl. 03:56 skrev Devin Prater <[email protected]>: > > The only thing I don't like is that Alex seems to studder and skip a little > on the mac, but he doesn't do that on the iPhone. So I use Fred on the mac > because of that. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Feb 8, 2015, at 7:59 PM, Jessica Moss <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> What words did you find he ran together? I use him as my default all the >> time, and only thing I've found that sounds really weird, is when you try to >> log in anywhere and go to the usual "remember me," checkbox, when he speaks >> the "remember me," he sounds like he either has his teeth clenched, or has >> something in his mouth, which always makes me cringe, and I've always >> thought it really weird that he sounds like that. >>> On Feb 8, 2015, at 7:41 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> First, yes, this is about a speech synthesizer, and will thus be very >>> subjective. I wanted to see, though, if anyone else might have come to the >>> same conclusion I have. >>> >>> I got a Mac in the days of Lion, and quickly switched to the Vocalizer >>> voices (Serena or Lee, mostly). When we got new ones in Mavericks, I >>> favored Ava, and she is still among the best voices I know of, except a >>> couple from Ivona. In testing things for Yosemite, I kept switching from >>> Ava to Alex, just to see if any problems were being caused by the use of >>> Nuance voices. I accidentally made a startling discovery: Alex used to be >>> pretty bad a few years ago, but now, he's quite good. I've always liked the >>> breathing thing, but Alex would constantly run words together, mispronounce >>> syllables, and have other small problems that made him hard to understand, >>> especially at higher speeds. The more I use him in Yosemite, though, the >>> more I look for reasons to switch back to Ava, but the more those reasons >>> allude me. Ava misses the period after certain words, like "app", Alex >>> doesn't; Ava says "capital" before uppercase letters, although that setting >>> is disabled, and Alex doesn't; VoiceOver has delays when opening the VO >>> Utility or bringing up VO menus while using Nuance voices, but with Alex, I >>> find no such delays; and more. >>> >>> So, is it just me, or has Alex gotten way better? I don't mean "better" in >>> that VoiceOver runs faster while using Alex, although it certainly does. I >>> mean "better" in that, compared to a few years ago, he's far clearer when >>> speaking and makes far fewer mistakes. Maybe I'm misremembering, or maybe >>> I'm the only one to notice, since the change was likely gradual and thus >>> invisible to those who have used Alex all along. Either way, I'm interested >>> in hearing your thoughts, and I'm more eager than ever to obtain a 64-bit >>> iPhone so I can start using Alex there as well. My only complaint about >>> Alex is that he doesn't speed up very well - sure, he can go crazy fast, >>> but I find I miss things at more than 70% speaking rate. Anyway, what do >>> you all think? If you haven't used Alex in a long time, give him another >>> chance. If you use him all the time, have you noticed anything? >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> >> -- >> 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. 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