Re: CereProc Voices for Mac

2013-05-07 Thread Esther
Hi Nic and Others, Well, to be fair it's been about three years since I tried the Cereproc voices and had to uninstall them. I bought the Heather voice near the end of 2009, according to the record of my receipts, and kept it on my system through early 2010. Then, I recall that the subject

Re: CereProc Voices for Mac

2013-05-05 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Esther, Well, I suppose we could buy them, since they don't offer demos unless you request them, and even then it's not always the case they let you download one. That having been said, since the prices seem to be the same for both Windows and OS X now which is a lot more reasonable, it

Re: CereProc Voices for Mac

2013-05-05 Thread Chris Gilland
I tried the Adam voice. It's... o... k... by far and away not my favorite though. Chris. - Original Message - From: Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith ly...@mac-access.net To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 2:29 AM Subject: CereProc

Re: CereProc Voices for Mac

2013-05-04 Thread Josh Gregory
Oh my God wow, they have one of Pres. Obama? Just wow. Sent from my iPhone On May 4, 2013, at 2:29 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith ly...@mac-access.net wrote: Hello everybody Have any of you tried the CereProc voices for OS X? These voices are developed by a company based in Scotland,

Re: CereProc Voices for Mac

2013-05-04 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! I tried this with VoiceOver, and they were absolutely terrible to work with. I'd maybe hear one phrase spoken, then the voice would crash. Even then, the voice was truly unresponsive, even if I used the voice without VoiceOver. I just had another look, and it seems that the male voices

Re: CereProc Voices for Mac

2013-05-04 Thread Esther
Hi, I answered a post about other voices for the Mac a few weeks ago with this information. I also had one of the Cereproc voices from the same period that Nic describes, and I had to delete it because it crashed VoiceOver on my Mac. I quite liked the voice, which was one of their Scottish

Re: CereProc Voices for Mac

2013-05-04 Thread Josh Gregory
Sweet Thanks, :-) Sent from my iPhone On May 4, 2013, at 7:58 AM, Esther mori...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi, I answered a post about other voices for the Mac a few weeks ago with this information. I also had one of the Cereproc voices from the same period that Nic describes, and I had to