There's extra voices for Lion? How do I get those?

Sorry if I've missed this answer.

May and Prince Noah
On 2012-05-03, at 8:48 PM, Stacey Robinson wrote:

> Helps a lot.
> Thanks much.
> 
> On May 3, 2012, at 4:20 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote:
> 
>> Actually, it is possible to get additional voices for Snow Leopard, but 
>> unfortunately, they're not free. They're the acapella voices, and are very 
>> high quality. You can check them out at the following web site.
>> http://www.assistiveware.com
>> They're a bit pricy, but you can get 30 day trials for whatever voices 
>> you're interested in and then buy them after you've seen if they meet your 
>> needs. I ended up buying all of the English speaking acapella voices, and 
>> use Tracy as my system voice, although I still prefer Alex for Voceover.
>> Good luck, and I hope this helps.
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stacey Robinson
>> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 4:42 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Getting other voices for your mac.
>> 
>> Oh, I see.
>> Thanks.
>> I'm really happy with Alex.
>> I was just curious.
>> On May 3, 2012, at 3:33 PM, Daniel Miller wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> The extra voices are only for OS X Lion, unfortunately.
>>> From: [email protected] 
>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stacey Robinson
>>> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 3:31 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Getting other voices for your mac.
>>> Hi Daniel,
>>> Can you get extra voices for your mac?
>>> I have the white macbook running snowleopard.
>>> If you can get voices, where do you get them from?
>>> On May 3, 2012, at 5:11 AM, Daniel Miller wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> Yes, there is a way you can remove the voices. I’m going to paste in 
>>> instructions.
>>> Using Finders great “Go to Folder” feature of Command+Shift+G enter the 
>>> following path:
>>> /System/Library/Speech/Voices/
>>> You’ll see a list of voices, but notice they come in two formats: Voice and 
>>> VoiceCompact, you can keep VoiceCompact because those are just the short 
>>> samples, it’s the Voice.SpeechVoice you want to delete to remove the full 
>>> voice.
>>> For a quick example we’ll get rid of Samantha – sorry Samantha, you sound 
>>> lovely but you take up too much space – so we will be deleting 
>>> Samantha.SpeechVoice. Select that folder and either drag it to the Trash or 
>>> hit Command+Delete to place it there automatically. Because the voice files 
>>> are contained in /System/ you will need to authenticate with the 
>>> administrator password in order to delete the file, so type that in, then 
>>> you can empty the Trash. No more Samantha!
>>> I hope this helps!
>>> From: [email protected] 
>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Krysti .Power
>>> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 5:08 AM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: Deleting voices
>>> Id like to know this as well
>>> 
>>> On 2012-05-03 7:05 AM, "Lisette wesseling" <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>> Is it possible to delete the many compact voices one doesn't use? Do these 
>>> compact voices slow the Mac computers down at all? I have downloaded a few 
>>> of the premium ones but really can't see a use for most of the pre 
>>> installed voices.
>>> I suspect the answer will be no but thought it worth asking.
>>> 
>>> Thanks to all for help on mailbox issues. All sorted now.
>>> Lisette
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 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.
>>> -- 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> -- 
>> 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.

Reply via email to