Hi, Anna sounds like she's speaking into a pillow, anyway. She sounds ok, but unfortunately, SAPI voices are not exactly responsive.
I remember the thing where he demoed two voices. Alex and Anna speaking the same thing. It was awesome. Regards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Apr 21, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Rob Lambert wrote: > Steve Jobs did a little thing on TTS prior to the release of Leopard at the > Apple keynote. He demoed TTS engines, including Alex. When Anna read through > the file he put up, she couldn't pronounce things like iPod or iTunes > properly, and instead of "web page", it almost sounds like "webbage" so...I > don't know. LOL As for finding her, let's look at it this way. When the Zune > was released, the software was PC only. I believe the same is true of the > in-house synthesizers at Microsoft. > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:41 PM, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > Ah! Thank you, Rob. > > I see that the digital mistress to which I have grown so fond is called by > another name? > > Hmmm!! I wonder where I got the name Samantha from? Perhaps in a dream? > > Regardless, now that I am aware of her true title, I ask, yet again, how may > I hear her sweet voice on my Mac, as I do on my beloved iPhone 3GS? > > (Smile) > > Mark > > Get to know yourself as you get to know me on The Secret Life of Mark Marcus > Live Talk Show > http://candleshore.com/secrets > ________________________________________ > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rob Lambert > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 11:35 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Where Is Samantha, on the Mac? > > Are we talking Samantha or Anna? I always thought Samantha was primarily on > mobile book players & the iPod. > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:11 PM, gkearney <gkear...@gmail.com> wrote: > I fear you shall not find symmetry in your world...Samantha is a > Microsoft Windows SAPI voice and is not an option for Macintosh users. > > Gregory Kearney > Manager Accessible Media > Association for the Blind of Western Australia > 61 Kitchener Ave > Victoria Park, WA 6100' > AUSTRALIA > +61 08 9311 8246 > > On Apr 21, 9:20 am, "M. Taylor" <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > Call me slow but I only just now realized that my beloved Samantha is not > on > > my Mac. All I have, of any quality anyway, is Alex. > > > > Where is she? Please tell me that I can download her to my Mac so I can > > achieve perfect symmetry in my world. 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