Oh dear. That really is too bad. I guess the walled garden can sometimes be a 5-star luxury prison.
So, all voices have to go through Apple itself? I guess that's the implication. Janina Devin Prater writes: > The huge, giant, Bible sized problem is, that eSpeak is not supportive of > voiceover. Sure you could probably run it fine in terminal, but Then you > could only read text files with it, and possibly convert them to sound files. > Its really bad when some one can get a closed-source synth like Eloquence to > work but not a freely open source engine like eSpeak. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Aug 7, 2015, at 3:45 PM, Janina Sajka <jan...@rednote.net> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm just now catching up on this list and note no one suggested trying > > espeak for osx. Yes, it's a formant voice. However, it does provide a > > Classical Greek varient, and the maintainer is very supportive of > > specific suggestions for improving pronunciation. > > > > http://espeak.sf.net > > > > I have wondered, however, whether Classical Greek is what we really need > > for Biblical study, as the New Testament is in Koine Greek. Here again, > > I suspect Jonathan, the maintainer of espeak, would be supportive of > > building and providing a Koine voice, if some expert might give him > > specifics on what needs to be different. I would imagine Koine is > > relatively close to Classical Greek, as the time difference is only a > > few centuries. > > > > hth > > > > Janina > > > > Brian Howerton writes: > >> Hello all, > >> I am trying to teach myself new testament greek. I was wondering if > >> anyone has tested learning a biblical language on the mac with voiceover. > >> Just was curious to see how that might work with voiceover as far as > >> pronunciations and things like that. Thanks, > >> Brian > >> > >> -- > >> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > > > > Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 > > sip:jan...@asterisk.rednote.net > > Email: jan...@rednote.net > > > > Linux Foundation Fellow > > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > > Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf > > > > -- > > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:jan...@asterisk.rednote.net Email: jan...@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
