Hello, I did experience a lot of crashes with william especially when using safari (that is voicover restarting) it was very annoying. Greetings, Anouk On Nov 17, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote:
> Hi, > > No, I do not need his e-mail. > > It seems I lost what I wrote to reply after trying William, so I'll try again. > > Generally, William didn't actually crash anything. William was pretty snappy, > just like the Infovox voices. However, when surfing with Safari and using > other applications, I occasionally lost all speech though I could still hear > the VoiceOver sounds. That seemed to be the biggest issue. Also, what is > weird, is that at first, it kept switching back to Alex when switching to > William in the Voice box in the VoiceOver Utility. It took a bit of patience > and some effort to make it switch and actually keep using the voice. Also, > worth noting is that apparently you cannot change to the William voice by > choosing the speech attribute with VO-Right/Left and using VO-Up/Down to > cycle between available voices. At least, I had no luck with that. > > The quality is not very good, and William can be difficult to understand. > Even with the VoiceOver volume on one hundred percent, you still have to turn > the Macintosh volume up quite a bit. It definitely doesn't sound very clear. > I expected better quality. > > In short, I definitely do not think it's anywhere worth its current price. A > lot of things could be improved, but that's to be expected, of course. > > Regards, > Nic > Skype: Kvalme > MSN Messenger: [email protected] > AIM: cincinster > yahoo Messenger: cin368 > Facebook Profile > My Twitter > > On Nov 17, 2009, at 2:52 PM, hank smith wrote: > >> I sent the info in a email >> did you need to know the guys email who gave me mine? >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Nicolai Svendsen >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 6:48 AM >> Subject: Re: Cereproc Voices Again >> >> Hi again, >> >> After obtaining my coupon for William, I'm going to try him in a bit. As for >> refunds, Cereproc generally does not provide any refunds unless a very good >> reason is provided. >> >> Regards, >> Nic >> Skype: Kvalme >> MSN Messenger: [email protected] >> AIM: cincinster >> yahoo Messenger: cin368 >> Facebook Profile >> My Twitter >> >> On Nov 17, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> That's exactly why I would like to try them before I buy. I don't care >>> about the Demo Bar. That's not going to show me how usable they are, nor >>> get them any feedback. But I'll let you know if they have one. I hope they >>> do. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Nic >>> Skype: Kvalme >>> MSN Messenger: [email protected] >>> AIM: cincinster >>> yahoo Messenger: cin368 >>> Facebook Profile >>> My Twitter >>> >>> On Nov 17, 2009, at 10:43 AM, anouk radix wrote: >>> >>>> Hello PLEASE if you find out about a refund policy let me know because I >>>> sure want my money back. I did submit a bug report but did not get any >>>> kind of reply while their voices are just plain unusable on the mac. >>>> Greetings, Anouk >>>> On Nov 17, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi guys, >>>>> >>>>> Sorry to bring this up continuously. >>>>> >>>>> I recall someone mentioning a coupon to obtain a trial for a Cereproc >>>>> voice. I assume this is for the Mac? If so how did you get it? Cereproc >>>>> themselves don't seem to be very helpful, and since the Demo bar is >>>>> flash, apparently, I can't use it. Nor am I allowed to test it before >>>>> buying, supposedly. I don't recall if they have a refund policy, but I >>>>> hope they do. Either way, at least support doesn't sound very promising. >>>>> But yes. I'm pretty sure I heard of someone having a coupon code for the >>>>> Cereproc Sarah, at least. I did want to try William, but at least >>>>> Cereproc seem to deny that there has ever been existing trials of any of >>>>> their products. I'm doubting this a bit due to the mention of a code on >>>>> the list. I'd persist and claim it does exist, but I don't want to be >>>>> hated by Cereproc. :) >>>>> >>>>> Can anyone confirm if it only exists for Sarah or all their voices? it >>>>> would seem a bit weird if it only exists for a single voice. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Nic >>>>> Skype: Kvalme >>>>> MSN Messenger: [email protected] >>>>> AIM: cincinster >>>>> yahoo Messenger: cin368 >>>>> Facebook Profile >>>>> My Twitter >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=. >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=. >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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