thanks, I have seen this before, just going senile On 2013-02-20, at 9:09 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
> Go to the vo utility, select speech from the table, select the voices tab, > open the voice popup menu, and select customize. Once the resulting window > loads, use the table to check all the voices you want, then hit the download > button. You will be asked if you really want to download the voices as they > are quite large - say yes and, after a while (depending on how many you > selected), the files will be downloaded and installed. They will then appear > both in that voices tab you started in, and in the quick speech settings > available by arrowing around with vo-cmd held down. > On Feb 20, 2013, at 11:37 PM, Kerri <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Where does one get the nuance voices? >> On 2013-02-20, at 7:13 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> That's why I use Nuance, specifically Serena or Lee. I found that Alex >>> tends to be too broken, as though you can often hear the individual voice >>> samples that are strung together to form speech, instead of just hearing >>> smooth speech. Nuance sometimes does this as well, but it is better than >>> Alex. >>> On Feb 20, 2013, at 5:58 PM, Christina <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hmmmm, I am using Alex and maybe that's why I can't really tell much of a >>>> difference when I changed the intonation. The only reason I was trying to >>>> figure it out is because Alex seems to skip words or blend two words >>>> together and it sounds really weird. Then I am finding myself wasting time >>>> going back to check my typing only to find that I did type correctly. :) >>>> Does anyone else experience this? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Christina >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Have a great day, >>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > > > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) > [email protected] > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
