Hi. This is the reason why I use either Acapela's or Cereproc's voices if I'm tired of using Alex and I want a different human sounding voice to blab to me. Both brands of voices don't have the same delay as the Vocalizer voices do. Acapela's voices are pretty cheap and once you download their Infovox Ivox engine from assistiveware.com <http://assistiveware.com/> you can try them out for 30 days. Cereproc, on the other hand, is a little more expensive than Acapela, around 40 to $45 and has no free trial, however some of their voices sound better than most of the Acapela voices. You can go to cereproc.com and listen to samples of their voices. The only drawback with Cereproc, and I've reported this to their support, is that the voices when doing a read all tend to repeat a sentence once. But like I said, I experience no delay with them. I hope this helps somebody.
Shawn Sent from my White MacBook > On May 15, 2015, at 11:21 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good point. To the OP: what voice are you using? Yosemite introduced some > serious delays in a lot of tasks when using Nuance voices, at least for some > users. In fact, I switched to Ava (I normally use Alex) a few minutes ago, > and instead of keeping up with me as Alex does, Ava is slowly reading off a > long list of characters, at a rate of maybe two per second, and nothing I do > stops the stream. It's painful! See if switching to Alex fixes the problem, > and do please write to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> about this. >> On May 16, 2015, at 12:09 AM, Dionipher Presas Herrera <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> i do have the same delay with the italian voices too, but on Alex, nope. >>> On 16 May 2015, at 2:25 am, Jean <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello All: >>> >>> I have voiceover set to both character echo and word echo and have since I >>> began using a mac almost three years ago. Recently, I have noticed a >>> significant lag in voiceover during character echo which is really becoming >>> a problem. I have run repair permissions, rebooted the computer and >>> relaunched voiceover to no avail. >>> No amount of hitting the control key helps either. >>> >>> Any suggestions about how to fix this? >>> Jean >>> >>> -- >>> 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] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >>> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >>> <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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > [email protected] <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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.
