Real Speak daniel does it now and again, for me, but not too much. It doesn't 
do it with JAWs I don't think. I wonder what causes it. I'm replying to a lot 
of messages today because I am so impressed with how amazing Apple Mail is. Yes 
people, you heard me right! I am finally coming round to loving my Mac. I used 
to think of my Mac kind of like a young, attractive woman who I'm having an 
affair with. She was exciting, new and invigorating. But she doesn't do any 
jobs around the house, nor could I depend on her in a time of need like I could 
with my wife. My windows machine is my wife; she's a bit boring, she nags me a 
lot, but she's been long-term and she's generally dependable, if a little 
sluggish. So now and again I go trotting off to my fantasy woman (I.E. my Mac 
computer,) but I always come home when I need something from my wife, (my 
windows computer) because I can depend on her. Also my Mac is like a younger 
fantasy woman who I'm having an affair with because she is very expensive in 
comparison to my windows machine. Let's be honest, I had to buy my fantasy 
woman's love. If I didn't splash the cash she wouldn't give me the time of day. 

Shall we stop the metaphor there? I'm starting to get emotional. By the way, I 
don't have a wife, nor am I dating a young attractive woman. Nor do I get up to 
anything sinister with my Mac, nor with my windows machine. Well … nothing much 
anyway. O come on! I'm not the only one! 

Sorry for the long email that didn't really help. I'm just so impressed by th 
speed with which I can use Apple Mail and how easy it is to reply and send 
emails. I will not make a habit of rambling messages that don't answer the 
question, but if you're the kind of person who gets annoyed by that kind of 
thing then let me alleviate any annoyance you might be feeling by alerting you 
to the fact that I am using this lengthy email as a way for you to test how 
many times Real Speak voices fluctuate into different pitches while reading it. 
So yes, this email is a sort of scientific experiment. If you all press VO A to 
read the whole message and report back how many times our real speak voices did 
odd pitch changes and where they happened, then perhaps we will identify some 
kind of trend. I'm sure there's some of you who believe I've just made that 
last bit up to justify my rambling long message, but then you would say that 
wouldn't you. That's just the kind of person you are. 

Incidentaly, I just read the message back with Real Speak Daniel using VO A to 
read all, and it didn't do a random pitch change once. So perhaps it only 
happens when you cursor through things. Is anyone else finding that is true? 

You see, there was a point to my message after all.

The End!


On 16 Oct 2011, at 11:27, Shawn Krasniuk wrote:

> Hey guys. I don't know if any of you guys noticed but when using the Nuance 
> voices with Voice Over in Lion 10.72, the bug with the freaky pitch changes 
> has gotten worse. I like using Samantha a lot and it would be too bad if I 
> had to use Alex for everything because of this bug. So I'd like to encourage 
> everyone to get on Apple Accessibilities aces and tell them to fix this 
> stupid bug once and for all.
> 
> Shawn
> 
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