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] >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> > > -- > 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.
