Well, I thought for sure everybody knew the obvious fact that most TTS voices 
nowadays were concatinated speech samples.  I knew that of course.  
Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind 
built-in!
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray
Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user!

On Jun 10, 2013, at 8:48 PM, Chris Gilland <[email protected]> wrote:

> Boy!  Aren't we in a good mood today!
> 
> Chris.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Foret jr" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 9:37 PM
> Subject: Re: IOS 7 did I hear something right?
> 
> 
>> Uh, I knew that.  Duh.  Not my point anyhow.  I think that these are a new 
>> set of voices that Apple's coming out with but can't say that for sure.
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind 
>> built-in!
>> Sincerely,
>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray
>> Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user!
>> 
>> On Jun 10, 2013, at 8:26 PM, Matt Dierckens <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Ok.
>>> As I said on twitter, these are not actual synthetic. These are recorded by 
>>> the people who actually made the samanthaand tom voices. So who knows.
>>> On 2013-06-10, at 8:57 PM, Ray Foret Jr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'm not sure. I listen to both of those voices several times (I recorded 
>>>> the entire thing is way file) and to tell the truth, I didn't recognize 
>>>> Tom as the male voice. No. I think this is a completely new set of voices.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I am also very hopeful that these new voices (assuming they are you 
>>>> voices) will also be available on the Mac. Now, if that is the case, these 
>>>> are much better voices than anything we have ever used before.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> To me, that is enough of a reason to get excited about the new iOS 7. And 
>>>> then, of course, there is the new control panel. I would guess that one 
>>>> would access it by swiping three fingers upward on the screen. But, that 
>>>> is only a guess.
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone, the only smart phone with full accessibility for the 
>>>> blind built-in!
>>>> 
>>>> On Jun 10, 2013, at 7:50 PM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I thought the male voice sounded like a much nicer version of Tom than I'm 
>>>> use to hearing. They did mention having French and German voices too and 
>>>> demonstrated those briefly. And they said more hq languages were coming.
>>>> Mary Otten
>>>> [email protected]
>>>> 
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