So the Alex voices are either compressed or recorded with more data or less data compression. So the wide bandwidth voices have a bit more clarity and expressiveness. It’s a subjective thing though on how you hear each voice but the compact voices are more heavily compressed and take up less room.
> On Nov 30, 2016, at 7:08 AM, Joseph Norton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi listers: > > Just experimenting with Mac OS Sierra, and had a couple questions. > > I wonder if there have been any major changes in VoiceOver since Mavericks. > > Also, I am playing around with a virtual machine I downloaded. > > I upgraded it to Sierra, then, went into the recovery console, and re > downloaded, hoping this would overwrite any hacked code that might have been > in the original download. > > Nonetheless, I’m not taking any chances. No electronic banking, and, no > credit cards are going to be entered here. > > Actually, it works remarkably well, for running in a VM under Windows. Alex > is surprisingly still responsive. > > One thing I am noticing is the speech preferences gives me a choice of Alex > compact or just plain Alex. Honestly, I can’t tell the difference. Is there > any difference? > > Anyway, I’m hoping to get some kind of used Mac to use, so I will be running > certified hardware, eventually. > > However, I just wanted to say hello. > > Thanks for any help or suggestions. > > > > Joseph Norton > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > Sent from my Mac (Not!) > > > -- > 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. You can reach mark at: > [email protected] 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]/ > <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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- 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. You can reach mark at: [email protected] 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.
