Re: Alex for the Mac and Correctness of Pronunciation

To me, regards sounds more like “regardsh,” when used in a sentence. I’m just listening too hard or not. > On Dec 11, 2015, at 9:00 AM, Craig Werner wrote: > > Thanks very much to all who have responded to my request for help. > > Shaun and Alex, I typically run my Mac OS

Re: Alex for the Mac and Correctness of Pronunciation

My point exactly. Alex has more than his share of pronunciation eccentricities. However, after so many years of Eloquence use, I'm going to give him a good try. Let's see how adaptive I can be in making the proper auditory closures so that eventually, he won't seem so quirky. Craig" On Saturday,

Re: Alex for the Mac and Correctness of Pronunciation

Thanks very much to all who have responded to my request for help. Shaun and Alex, I typically run my Mac OS voices at around 50 percent. Sometimes, the faults I perceive are accentuated if I run them at a rate under 50%. Nicolai, here are a couple of examples which demonstrate the kind of

Re: Alex for the Mac and Correctness of Pronunciation

Using Alex on 10.11.2 at 70%, I noticed no problems in your examples. However, my rate is fast enough that picking out a D sound versus a hard G sound at the end of a word is impossible; my brain hears what it expects at the end of 'regards'. In the first example, though, I heard 'department'

Re: Alex for the Mac and Correctness of Pronunciation

Yeah, Alex voice does have rhythm and pronunciation inconsistencies but I notice different ones with different voices and still find all these voices too human sounding and a little bit too slow for my taste. But they're not going to get a DoubleTalk LT style voice for OS X and iOS any time

Re: Alex for the Mac and Correctness of Pronunciation

Alex, you said something potentially helpful. Referring to my perceived mispronunciation of the end of "regards," you wrote: "my brain hears what it expects at the end of 'regards'. " It may well be that I am not sufficiently tuned into Alex's accent to allow my brain to make the proper closure.

Re: Alex for the Mac and Correctness of Pronunciation

thir, tee, five, per, cent, is, w'w'w'way, too, suh, low'w'w for, my, ligh, king! Seriously, I have had no issues either, and I run mine at about 70 to 75. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Shawn Krasniuk" To: Sent:

Alex for the Mac and Correctness of Pronunciation

Hello,everyone. As we all know, preference for one voice over another is a matter of subjective interpretation. However, it strikes me that one criterion is less subjective than the others: the ability of a synthesizer to pronounce a word correctly in the dialect and language the user has

Re: Alex for the Mac and Correctness of Pronunciation

Hi. I don't notice any pronunciation issues with Alex. Just out of curiosity, what's the rate of your speech? I keep all my voices at a 35% speech rate because they sound the most natural with that rate. Any higher is unnatural. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk

Re: Alex for the Mac and Correctness of Pronunciation

Hi! I'd also be very curious for a more specific example (a sentence where this occurs.) I do notice that sometimes, Alex does swallow words and almost mashes them together with others, making it hard to hear parts of the word, but Apple is usually good about addressing this. This happens so

Re: Alex for the Mac and Correctness of Pronunciation

I use Alex at 70% on iOS and OS X, and have rarely noticed a problem. Put another way, Alex has no more pronunciation oddities, to my ear, than do other popular voices. Often, he's easier to understand, and he seems to try less auto-expansion tricks than do Nuance voices, which is nice. He also