OK, then it could be the pitch change as earlier suggested. Samantha and some of the other voices have this odd pitch change at times. I was told by a sighted person that Samantha almost sounds "demonic" when the pitch shifts down low.
Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, [email protected] Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Jan 14, 2013, at 9:02 PM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland" <[email protected]> wrote: > My system voice is Alex which this is definitely not, and all the bverbosity > things are definitely set to default. > > Chris Gilland. > Founder of CLG Productions > http://www.clgproductions.com > E-mail: [email protected] > Phone: 803-760-7136 > Toll-Free: 1-888-405-3185 > Mon-Fri 8A.M-5P.M Eastern Standard Time except weekends and holidays. > ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Panarese" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 7:00 PM > Subject: Re: Love! this voice, but which one is it!? > > > Are you sure you don't have a system voice turned on or you haven't selected > another voice in verbosity settings in the VO Utility? I did that a long > time ago and discovered it when I started hearing a Scottish voice every once > in a while in background. I must have been messing with verbosity at some > point and somehow set it for one of the options. Take a look in there again > if you happened to be exploring in the VO Utility. > > > Take Care > > John D. Panarese > Director > Mac for the Blind > Tel, (631) 724-4479 > Email, [email protected] > Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com > > APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION > > AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE > > MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT > > > > On Jan 14, 2013, at 6:51 PM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland" > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> OK, I just had something kind of weird happen, but I'd love! to know which >> voice it is that is doing this, as I love it! I switched my voice in >> mountain Lion over to Samantha. I used to have it on Alex. Now, I'm >> finding something interesting. If I go into contacts, then go to create >> another contact card, as I'm vo+right arrowing through the contact detail >> fields, yes, Samantha is reading things, but I'm finding that as it hits >> different fields like first name last name, etc. there is a male voice which >> is speaking. It's not Alex, and it doesn't really sound like Fred either. >> I'm wonderring who it is, as that voice is incredible! I don't have any >> extra voices installed. This is an o s x thing, so, it's whatever that male >> voice is by default. >> >> I really wanna know though as he is really! good. I remember another friend >> after switching to Samantha having this same thing happen, and really really >> liking it. He said he thought it was Samantha but at an extremely! lower >> pitch. >> >> Chris Gilland. >> Founder of CLG Productions >> http://www.clgproductions.com >> E-mail: [email protected] >> Phone: 803-760-7136 >> Toll-Free: 1-888-405-3185 >> Mon-Fri 8A.M-5P.M Eastern Standard Time except weekends and holidays. >> -- >> 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.
