With respect to the weird pitch changes on the Nuance voices, there aint nothin you need to do. That's a weirdness we're all anoid about.
Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Oct 27, 2011, at 1:32 PM, Kirsten Edmondson wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
