Happy Will or normal Will? I find that normal Will sounds too much like Paul from Neospeech.
Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Feb 12, 2015, at 2:23 PM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4...@icloud.com> wrote: > > I do use Alex on my i-devices though I also use Karen and Daniel and > occasionally Samantha. I still don't really like Alex on the Mac but would > rather use Karen or from the infovox voices Ryan or Heather or sometimes > Will. Voices are such a matter of individual preference. > > -- > Cheryl > > "Move forward by looking back! > "Above all, fear the Lord > and worship Him faithfully with all your heart; > consider the great things He has done for you." > (1 Samuel 12:24 (HCSB) > > > > > > On Feb 12, 2015, at 2:15 PM, christopher hallsworth <challswor...@icloud.com > <mailto:challswor...@icloud.com>> wrote: > > I use Alex on both my Mac and iPad Mini 2. Do not have a compatible iPhone to > use ALex on. >> On 12 Feb 2015, at 07:37, Garth Humphreys <ghu...@gmail.com >> <mailto:ghu...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> 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 <and...@pipkrokodil.se >> <mailto:and...@pipkrokodil.se>> 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 <d.pra...@me.com >>> <mailto:d.pra...@me.com>>: >>> >>> 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 <junglebookfa...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:junglebookfa...@gmail.com>> 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 <mehg...@icloud.com >>>> <mailto:mehg...@icloud.com>> 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. 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