I am running the latest OS on my mac where do I find these Nuance voices? Do I purchase these somewhere? I don't see these voices anywhere. I only see, Alex, Victoria, Bruce, Kathy, Fred, and Vicky. Sent from Christina's iMac :)
On Jun 26, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > That's why I gave up on Alex. He sounds okay in promos or quick snippets, but > I quickly found him to be annoying for real work. My personal favorites for > speech are either Lee or Serena. Give those and the other Nuance voices a try > (assuming you have 10.8) and see what happens. > On Jun 26, 2013, at 1:56 PM, "Christina C." <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hmmm, one example is that in the subject line of this email, Alex says oddly >> with a distinctive H sound at the beginning like its spelled HODDLY. If I >> spell out the last name Solden but I refer to the whole family as the >> Soldens then Alex speaks "S" it sounds like he actually says es with the s >> sound drawn out very slowly. Alex does all of these weird things in any >> environment even if I am typing or having voiceover read something I just >> typed I do not have caps lock on. I get an alert sound if I type in caps >> lock. Sometimes VO reads in ways that are difficult to explain. Sometimes it >> acts as if there are a weird string of characters in the middle of a word. >> Sometimes Alex just leaves letters from the beginning or the end of words >> off. I wish I could pin point the problem or the exact time when it happens >> but it's just all over the place. It's really annoying when I keep thinking >> I typed a document incorrectly only to find that voiceover is just reading >> incorrectly and it wastes a ton of my time. I will try to remember more >> examples. I do notice it the most when using iMessage on my mac though. >> . >> Sent from Christina's iMac :) >> >> On Jun 26, 2013, at 6:19 AM, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, Christina, >>> >>> Can you give an example of a mispronounced word? Are only parts of words >>> being pronounced? Is Alex only mispronouncing what you type? This has >>> happened to me when I have caps lock enabled. If you can give any examples, >>> folks might have more of a handle on what's going on. :) >>> >>> HtH, >>> Teresa >>> >>> Winging its way from my iPod >>> >>> On Jun 25, 2013, at 10:33 AM, "Christina C." <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello everyone, >>>> >>>> I don't know what has been going on lately but voiceover has been speaking >>>> oddly and I can't seem to find any settings anywhere that would affect >>>> these changes. I am using the voice Alex in the United States. Alex will >>>> just randomly say words incorrectly then I will back up over the word >>>> then Alex will speak the word correctly but if I go forward over the word >>>> Alex speaks it incorrectly. I also cannot find anywhere in the settings to >>>> get Alex to stop reading roman numerals, particularly the letter C or D >>>> when it is all alone on a website, Alex will say 300 or 500 and it took me >>>> forever to figure out that it was actually the letter C or D. >>>> >>>> Thanks for any help, I wasn't sure if I should purchase a new voice or >>>> something. I don't know. I really don't want to do that. I just want Alex >>>> fixed. >>>> >>>> >>>> Sent from Christina's iMac :) >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>>> 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. >>> 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. >> 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. > 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. 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