Many of them are from Nuance. The "Fred" voice sounds somewhat similar
to a DECTALK, but not as good in my opinion.
On 12/29/20 9:29 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
I'm not sure about frequency, I believe tmost of these voices are the
same as what JAWS offers.
Karen, Samantha.
One thing with the Apple voice setting area, one can adjust both
pitch and intonation.
My understanding of intonation is how flat the voice will b.
HTH
Jonathan
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
On Dec 29, 2020, at 14:43, Karen Lewellen <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Shawn,
Thanks for that information.
My personal situation is that, due to experiencing a rather unique
secondary disability, I have yet to find a safe voice to use. One
that does not at best stimulate my brain's dizzy centres, or at worst
create something a bit like a Cesar.
My last try, in March, involved a siri voice on an Iphone, which
made me rather sick indeed.
for the moment Hardware, gosh I wish someone had saved the digital
dectalk voices, as I use a hardware decktalk voice now, seems safer
than software strict like Ios...believe me its complex even for my
medical team.
What I hoped for from the list was frequency related information
anything that might hint at quality before I try.
I would not be using a strict 64 bit edition of Macos regardless for
other reasons. Still, I imagine there are at least 20 or more
options just in the regular non-siri voices.
Thanks,
Karen
On Tue, 29 Dec 2020, 'Shawn Krasniuk' via MacVisionaries wrote:
Hi Karen. Some voices on the Mac are used for novelty purposes.
Bells basically talks, or in this case, sings like a grandfather
clock. There are other novelty voices that I'm not going to get
indepth about because it'll take all night to do so. But I can tell
you one voice I'm glad they finally let us use on the Mac. We can
now use Siri voices. They added those voices in Catalina and they
can be used in Big Sur as well.
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On Dec 28, 2020, at 10:49 PM, Karen Lewellen
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
What defines a voice as useless?
I suppose a voice named bells, is just a ringer not a talker?
Are the voices say for English first in the order, or must one go
down the list finding non-English speaking voices mixed into the
options? Clarity is an absolute requirement, and I mean strictly
on the mac.
Thanks so much,
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote:
Well, I believe they’re only 40 English voice says, and of those
at least 10 or totally useless. Generally they’re marked them as
different genders and sometimes is a compact and a non-compact
version. One example of a totally useless one, is the bells voice
that was around since macOS eight or possibly seven.
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 28, 2020, at 5:03 PM, Karen Lewellen
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Jonathan,
Do you know if any details about each voice is provided..anywhere?
Its characteristics, frequency ranges, etc.?
Surely there must be some reason that makes each voice
distinctive from each other besides the name.
That such a number exists is honestly astonishing.
Karen
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
There are approximately, 285 voices that are available as
downloads from Apple. If you pick the name of the Voice in the
Speech category of VoiceOver utility, and go to the last item in
the pop-up list this will be "customize".
Pressing this brings up a dialog with a table of voices. Each
voice has a checkbox next to it to determine if if it will be
enabled for use in VoiceOver. After the list of voices is a
play, cancel, and a OK button. The Play button lets you hear a
sample of the selected voice. The OK button accepts any changes
and requests System Utility to download the new voices the next
time it checks for updates.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
On Dec 28, 2020, at 09:53, Chris Westbrook
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I like Alex, and sort of like Daniel sometimes, but are there
additional voices for purchase or free? Just wondering. I like
Fred's voice, but he doesn't speak clearly. haha.
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