Them's fighting words. Don't mess with the brooklyn accentt! On Oct 16, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Donna Goodin wrote:
> I have to say that I liked Heather when I heard her on my Winmo phone, but > when I downloaded the Asistiveware voices, her Brooklyn accent drove me > absolutely nuts!! (No offense to anyone here). But it was a noticeable > change from what I had heard previously. Maybe guys just like her b/c they > want to date her. :) > Take care, > Donna > On Oct 16, 2010, at 12:10 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > >> Hi, Alex is really new, and the other voices that come with mac are really >> legacy. I suspect breathing wasn't even a consideration when the older >> voices were being developed. I've got alex running so fast here, that I >> never even notice him breathing. >> >> As far as Samantha, she is just about the snottiest manliest woman I have >> ever heard. If she came up to me and said, "can I help you sir?", I'd be >> tempted to punch her in the nose. She sounds like she smokes way too much. >> Aside from just generally not liking her attitude, I find all the nuance >> voices a bit choppy, and I find they don't distinguish properly between b's >> p's and V's, or d's and T's, or S's and F's. Tom's especially bad for that. >> I don't know how most people stand him. Karen at least has a nice sounding >> voice tone, and I can live with the fact that she's australian. >> >> The acapela voices are absolutely great. They have amazing tone and >> inflection, they are nearly as smooth as alex. They just sound fantasttic. >> It would be nice to date heather just once. You know, I really should get >> out more if this is how I'm thinking about my computer. >> >> Have fun, >> >> Erik Burggraaf >> User support consultant, >> One on one access technology support and training over the phone or in >> person, >> 1-888-255-5194 >> http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >> >> On 2010-10-16, at 11:30 AM, Carolyn Haas wrote: >> >>> Eric: >>> On the subject of voiceover voicing, how come they only give breathing >>> capability to Alex? Also, I wonder why the other voices they have seem so >>> weak by comparison? Finally, in defense of Samaantha, I like her voice. >>> it seems to me to be the strongest option besides Alex; at least on the >>> iPhone. On the mac, if she's there under another name, she's not as >>> strong. As a hearing impaired person, I've found the voicing on the iPad >>> the easiest of all of the Apple voices to understand. But, that's just me. >>> >>> I'm interested in other people's thoughts on this. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Carolyn Haas >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> On Oct 16, 2010, at 6:33 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: >>> >>>> I'd like to see better html5 support. It's working more or less, but it >>>> could be better. Improved calendar and garage band accessibility. and a >>>> female voice just so as I could change it up once in a while. If they >>>> outsource voices from nuance I'm going to scream. There's no reason to >>>> buy aweful when we have acapela which is far better. If they would >>>> licence acapela I'd be right there, but please please please save me from >>>> samantha. >>>> >>>> Grade two braille input is a must. I also want the magnification to go up >>>> to 10 times without pixalating. The magnification stuff has got to >>>> improve to a point where it's on a par with the rest of voiceover. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> >>>> Erik Burggraaf >>>> User support consultant, >>>> One on one access technology support and training over the phone or in >>>> person, >>>> 1-888-255-5194 >>>> http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >>>> >>>> On 2010-10-15, at 1:43 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> I would really love to see other voices in other languages and that they >>>>> ditched those trinoids, good news, bad news, boing and other nonsence >>>>> voices that belonged in the days when they didn't really know what to do >>>>> with synthetic speech, because they hadn't a screen reader then. >>>>> Nowadays, there is Voiceover so then other voices in other languages are >>>>> more appropriate, especially since the screen reader itself is actually >>>>> localized into other languages than english. >>>>> Other than that, i would love to see a better translation to Swedish of >>>>> Voiceover and the feature that the old Outspoken had, namely theability >>>>> to know where the cursor was, by hearing a beep when you spell a word, so >>>>> that if you had the word "browser" for example and you are in the middle >>>>> of the word, just between the "w" and "s", you could hear "b r o w beep s >>>>> e r" and if you then went one step to the right with the cursor, it'd go >>>>> "b r o w s beep e r" and so on. >>>>> Permanent hot spots savable on a per application basis would also be nice. >>>>> And i totally agree with more accessibility of the ILife suite would be >>>>> wonderful. >>>>> /Krister >>>>> >>>>> 15 okt 2010 kl. 19.25 skrev Daniel Rowe: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi all. >>>>>> >>>>>> As you might be aware, apple are holding a "Back To The Mac" event next >>>>>> Wednesday at 10 eastern in Cupertino, California. There are rumours of >>>>>> possible upgrades to the MacBook Air and also the unveiling of MAC OS X >>>>>> 10.7. >>>>>> So, what would you like to see included in next version of the OS, >>>>>> either generally or VoiceOver specific? >>>>>> >>>>>> Personally, I'd like to see a female voice that is as good as Alex, and >>>>>> to have voices in other languages even if it meant licensing them from >>>>>> nuance as they have done in iOS. >>>>>> Accessibility improvements to garage band would be welcome, as well as >>>>>> making iWeb accessible. >>>>>> The last major thing I can think of is to finally fix the issue of VO >>>>>> randomly resetting itself. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm sure they'll come up with a load of things I haven't even thought >>>>>> of. 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