Well, voices are totally subjective, and I can't speak for other languages, but I'd much rather have US espeak than tom or samantha. To me those voices sound like complete garbage.
Every ear is different though. Some of my clients love those voices. Personally I think it will be a grand day when alex is ported to IOS. Best, Erik Burggraaf User support consultant, Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggraaf, 1-888-255-5194 http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2011-03-02, at 12:42 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Oh come on, the scansoft voices ain't so bad, be thankful it isn't espeak or > Orpheus. I for one think that the swedish scansoft voices are way way better > in terms of language treatment than the Infovox ones. > /Krister > > 2 mar 2011 kl. 17.46 skrev Mary Otten: > >> According to the article found at >> http://www.tuaw.com/ >> Mac OS 10 offers high quality multi-lingual voices, >> There are going to be a whole lot of high quality voices, in a variety of >> languages, available for download in the next iteration of Apple's os. For >> me, the one possible sour note was the reference to Samantha and Tom as an >> improvement over Alex that we have now. I hope this will not mean that Apple >> will decide to retire Alex in favor of what are, for me at least, vastly >> inferior voices in Samantha and Tom. There will be other English voices, the >> ones we know on the IPhone. Indeed, it sounds like the voices that are >> coming to Lion are those we now have on the I-devices. Great for speakers of >> languages other than English. Great for folks who prefer a non-U.S. English >> reading voice. But a definite leap backwards if they can Alex in favor of >> what's on the IPhone now, even if they include the male voice. >> >> Mary >> >> Mary Otten >> [email protected] >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
