OK guys. Either I'm just going mentally insane over here, or I truly am doing something wrong. God do I hope the ladder!
Here is the deal. As some of you may know, I have a bit of a hearing loss. Some might clame it's mild, others may say it's severe. Anyway, the point is, I certainly can use Alex, but he, along with most of the other Nuance TTS voices are a bit hard for me to understand. This isn't negotiable. I'm not using them, so don't try convincing me. That's not the point of this thread, so please don't hijack it and turn it into such. I'm kindly gonna request that Mark not let that happen. Anyway, the thing is, I've found that I'm able to use the Fred legacy voice quite well. Unfortunately though, Fred, in comparison to Alex is significantly mor quiet when turned all the way up to 100%. This leads me to my question. Take a look at this link. http://www.applevis.com/forum/os-x-mac-app-discussion/bypassing-upper-speech-rate-limit-os-x-voices Now, I totally do get that this is more for uncapping the speaking rate, not the volume, however, the volume is referenced in this page. Look under the initial question at the very first comment. I've followed these instructions exactly to a T, but the volume still isn't seeming to uncap. Not even if I put it to 140 which is apparently the max volume limit. Basically, what I'm trying to ultimately accomplish is, I want the volume of Fred to be equal at 100% to that of Alex at 100%. I know! this apparently can be done, but try as I may, even editting that line in Text Edit isn't working. I checked to see if maybe the line was commented, but it's not. Or at least, if it is, I see absolutely no indication of it being such. Is there maybe another file that needs to be changed? Maybe like a PList file or something? If so, what is it, and what needs to be modified specifically? Has that volume numerical integer value changed since that article was written where maybe it now in El Capitan can go higher than 140? I'd be extremely intrested in hearing if anyone can talk me step by step through getting this to work correctly. Chris. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[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 https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
