How do you update the voices? Are the Nuance voices the free voices that Apple provides for Voiceover users? Forgive me if these questions appear to be rather basic.
Thanks Andrew On 29 Jul 2012, at 12:32, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi, > The nuance issues are indeed fixed, keep in mind though that after installing > Mountain Lion, you have to go to the program update and look for new updates. > When you do, you will find a bunch of new voices amongst other things. Just > update everything and you'll be good to go. All the bugs in the Swedish > voice, including issues with how it pronounced certain characters when typing > with typing echo set to characters or when reading character by character are > gone and so are the pitch issues. Only time the voices actually change pitch > is when you delete a character or when you press a character with the shift > key helld down. > Apple has indeed done a great job with this release. The one thing i wish for > is for dictation to support scandinavian languages. I hope it will happen but > i highly doubt it, just look at Siri on the IPhone which supports many > languages just not Swedish, Norwegean and other scandinavian languages. > /Krister > > 26 jul 2012 kl. 04:22 skrev Mike Arrigo <[email protected]>: > >> I was hoping they fixed the nuance voice issues. Does anyone know if there >> is a key stroke to access the notification center? For example, you can >> press control+f8 for the status menus, control+F2 for the menu bar, etc. Is >> there a keystroke for notifications? >> On Jul 25, 2012, at 8:57 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: >> >>> Hey guys. I was thinking of using the Siri dictation feature to write this >>> message, but after trying to send a message to Kimsan and seeing that it >>> entered something that I didn't say, I figured I'd write this myself. So >>> with that being said, I must say that Apple did a freaking awesome job with >>> Mountain Lion. My favorite features so far have been the Siri dictation, >>> even though it hears what it wants to hear sometimes, the ability to update >>> more than one App in the App store, and yes, the ability to use some third >>> party Apps that weren't accessible to us in the past. Now I can use >>> Menuweather, the app that I complained that wasn't accessible a few months >>> ago, and change whatever settings I need. Also, for Infovox Ivox 3 users, >>> your voices will continue to work. You don't need to download any patches >>> or anything. >>> I did notice a couple of bugs though. The first one is something that this >>> list has talked about when Lion first launched, and that is the booting up >>> time. For me, when I came home from work and booted up my machine, I pretty >>> much had to wait for about 2-3 minutes before Voiceover started talking. >>> Also, in both Lion and Snow Leopard, both Adium and Skype launched right >>> away after startup. In Mountain Lion, It takes a minute for both apps to >>> launch. These aren't deal breakers though, just minor hinderances. As for >>> the Nuance voices, I'm not gonna even bother using them with Voiceover if >>> they're still making those stupid pitch changes. Why would I if I have >>> Tracy from Acapela? >>> Anyway, all in all, this is a fantastic upgrade, better than Lion in my >>> opinion. I hope you all have fun with Mountain Lion, as I sure am. >>> >>> Shawn >>> Sent from my white Mac Book >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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.
