Hey Mark. Neural TTS was introduced back in iOS 13 and it's only available for the Siri voice. It was pretty cool when Apple showed it off. At WWDC they did a comparison between the normal sounding Siri voice and the same Siri voice that was using Neural TTS. If you listen carefully, you'll notice that the second version of the voice sounds more human than the normal concatenated version. That's Neural Text To Speech. I was going to send a link to a video showing you what I mean but it looks like Youtube has taken those videos down.
Regards Shawn Sent from Diva, the M1 MacBook Air To join my Whatsapp groups such as Tech Zone and Mac Users and Newbies, please message me and I'll add you. Follow me on Mastodon at bbsshawnontwitch@disabled.social Follow me on Facebook by searching for Shawn Krasniuk > On May 31, 2023, at 10:07 PM, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > > Great hearing your ideas, Shawn. > > You do have me at a disadvantage, however. I don't know what you mean when > you say Neural TTS engines. I did not know they even existed, at least, not > as such. > > What exactly is a Neural TTS? Is that Alex? > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: bbsshawn via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 2:26 PM > To: 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Re: Just a Quick Hello To Everyone on the List from Moderator Mark > > Hey Mark. Welcome back. Well for me I bought my M1 MacBook Air at the > beginning of the month and I'm still in love with her. I named her Diva. I > named her after a certain girl I'm interested in. I don't have a lot of > features I'd like to see, just a few fixes I'd like to see across all > devices. First for the new macOS I'd like to see them bring back the ability > to use the Neural TTS versions of the Siri voices with Voiceover. Why they > took that feature away from us in Ventura is beyond me. That's why I > downgraded this thing back to Monterey because Neural TTS beats the regular > voices. They sound so real and I love it. > For iOS 17 I'd like to see them bring back the Premium Zoe voice. I know when > iOS 16.0 was first in beta we had the voice but there were so many problems > with it that they took it away and now all we have is the enhanced version > of that voice which doesn't really sound that great. I'm using the Tom voice > for that reason and don't get me wrong, he's ok, but Zoe Premium is better. > I guess I kinda lied about not having any features I'd like to see added. In > iOS 17 I'd love to be able to use the Neural TTS Siri voices with Voiceover. > That's all though. Anyway, glad to see you're doing well Mark. > > Regards > Shawn > Sent from Diva, the M1 MacBook Air > To join my Whatsapp groups such as Tech Zone and Mac Users and Newbies, > please message me and I'll add you. > Follow me on Mastodon at bbsshawnontwitch@disabled.social Follow me on > Facebook by searching for Shawn Krasniuk > > > >> On May 31, 2023, at 11:55 AM, Violet Gill <logicalviol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello, I am enjoying my Mac mini M1 and my iPhone 14 promax. I think the >> best thing I will want to see for iOS 17 is it to be more stable iOS 16 was >> very very buggy in the earlier versions. Hopefully iOS 17 will be much >> better. >> >> >> >> Violet. >> She/her. >> >>> On May 31, 2023, at 12:22, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries >>> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Mark, >>> Rather than adding more features, I would much prefer the various OSs be >>> made more stable. Ventura and iOS need to be more polished. Especially >>> Voiceover voices. >>> >>> >>> From E.T.'s Keyboard... >>> "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent >>> revolution inevitable." >>> --John F. Kennedy >>> My e-Mail: >>> ancient.ali...@icloud.com >>> >>>> On 5/31/2023 7:58 AM, M. Taylor wrote: >>>> Hello Everyone, >>>> Seems as though it's been quite a while since I posted to the list >>>> so just wanted to check in with you and see how everyone is doing >>>> with their Apple devices. >>>> I am looking forward to the WWDC 2023 keynote presentation, next week. >>>> You know? 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