Hi, I'm glad things are working for you guys. Apple rocks indeed, but I have to say, we finns weren't so lucky. New Finnish Mikko voice is now made in such a way, that it tries to read English correctly. Finnish and English have very different phonetics, and so this causes some conflicts in Finnish then. Also, if someone is depending on speech only, in some cases there is absolutely no way to know what actually is on the screen. There are conflicts like: word join. To join in English, but that actually is a Finnish word also. It is indeed very very annoying if a Finnish synth tries to detect English words and pronounce them the correct Enblish way -- especially if the word in question was meant to be a Finnish word and mean to be pronounced differently. Yes, I know there is a way to tell VoiceOver how to pronounce things, but this is a huge issue, and just making a customized dictionary won't fix it.
Also, there still are issues with the Finnish braille table. The best solution at the moment is just to use the Swedish table. There at least most of the things are the same as in correct Finnish table. I found a workaround to get back my older Nuance voice, otherwise I would now be pulling my hair out. I really hope all these language issues will get fixed at some point -- the sooner, the better. Johanna On Jul 28, 2012, at 8:15 PM, Nektarios Mallas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > Most of what you said is also true for The Greek language. Voice over now > speaks like a native Greek speaker, smile!!! > They also gave a new excellent female Greek voice. > They also corrected some Braille issues with the language. > Apple rocks!!! > Nektarios. > > On Jul 28, 2012, at 5:22 PM, Krister Ekstrom <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> All the speech bugs that i wanted to be fixed in the Swedish >> Nuance/Realspeak voices are indeed fixed. The Swedish Oskar voice no longer >> clashes with the system voice making the system voice go silent. The strange >> announcing of characters when typing with typing echo set to characters are >> gone and so is the pitch bug, where the Realspeak voice suddenly would go >> either up or down in pitch for no apparent reason. Beware though that after >> installation of Mountain lion you have to go to "program update" and choose >> to update everything, and then you will get the voices you want. >> I'm surpriced dictation isn't available in Dutch, since it's one of the >> "big" languages. What doesn't surprice me in the least though is that the >> dictation feature isn't available in Swedish, and probably never will be. >> /Krister >> >> 25 jul 2012 kl. 22:12 skrev William Windels <[email protected]>: >> >>> Hello, >>> I haven't still 10.8 because the update program of apple has problems but, >>> I can already write some toughts because of things I have heard of others: >>> >>> For non-English users, 10.8 seems not so powerful and complete. >>> I have heard that the speech bug for the nuance voices isn't fixed since >>> the introduction a year ago ;) >>> my address, [email protected] is spoken as [email protected] >>> >>> If this is really true, is this a joke that they don't fix this after a >>> year? >>> >>> Also, the dictation function that is introduced in 10.8 covers only a few >>> languages and no dutch at the moment. I am courious when they will update >>> their languages. >>> >>> I'll not completely negative about the new version until I have tested >>> myself for a while but I'll always critical about new versions since they >>> fix bugs very slow sometimes. >>> >>> Any comments are appreciated, >>> >>> kind regards, >>> William Windels >>> >>> -- >>> 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.
