Hi, Thanks for the help with voices. I will try Serena for the day and see how much she annoys me. I'm surprised how used to Alex I've become in 24 hours. When I listened to the Samantha sample yesterday I wasn't impressed, but since it's free, I might try her out over the weekend too and then make my choice. I have the Samantha (Jill) on my IPhone currently and she's ok but she sounded more horrible in the sample on here. With regard to Sarena, I am noticing even in this short time sometimes she changes pitch wildly, she is fairly middling but then she goes quite low and then at other times she sort of sounds like a chipmunk or Smerf. I haven't made any changes and I didn't notice Alex doing this. Do I need to do something with Pitch and Intonation? I think they are both set to 50, which I think is the default. Thanks. Kirsten.
On 27 Oct 2011, at 19:04, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > Hey Kirsten. Serena and the other Nuance voices are indeed free. When you > download a voice, you'll have a software update dialog box asking you if you > want to install the voices you selected. And yes, you can go back to using > Alex if you don't like Serena. Simply go toy your VO utilities and go back to > speech. then when you go to that pop up with all the voices, select Alex. > However there is a faster way of changing stuff like voice, pitch and rate. > If you hold the VO and command keys and press any of the arrow keys, you'll > go to a roter that will allow you to change this stuff. HTH and welcome to > the Mac. By the way, I think Samantha sounds better on here than Serena. > > Shawn > > -- > 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.
