Re: an observation: nuance voices on os x being rather sluggish?

2016-09-26 Thread Andrew Lamanche
: > > Hi Everyone, I started using Lee and Xander on the mac today (nuance voices) > but I find them more sluggish then alex. Also the command to change speech > parameters (thansk for that info John) is really sluggish as well. > With sluggish i dont mean just needing a higher rate

Re: an observation: nuance voices on os x being rather sluggish?

2016-09-25 Thread Blee Blat
It's a problem here as well. Even the compact voices can be slow to respond. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate,

Re: an observation: nuance voices on os x being rather sluggish?

2016-09-25 Thread Alex Hall
nder on the mac today (nuance voices) > but I find them more sluggish then alex. Also the command to change speech > parameters (thansk for that info John) is really sluggish as well. > With sluggish i dont mean just needing a higher rate to get at the seem speed > as Alex but also r

an observation: nuance voices on os x being rather sluggish?

2016-09-25 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi Everyone, I started using Lee and Xander on the mac today (nuance voices) but I find them more sluggish then alex. Also the command to change speech parameters (thansk for that info John) is really sluggish as well. With sluggish i dont mean just needing a higher rate to get at the seem

Activity bug and Nuance voices was Re: advanced voice over?

2014-08-21 Thread Christina C.
How do I know if it's a Nuance voice that I am using? Are they all Nuance voices except for Alex and some of the low quality voices? I have surely noticed that when I want to change voices it is a very sluggish process. I usually just stick to Ava. I want to try activities. If I use the same

Re: Activity bug and Nuance voices was Re: advanced voice over?

2014-08-21 Thread Alex Hall
accessibil...@apple.com and using www.apple.com/feedback. On Aug 21, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote: How do I know if it's a Nuance voice that I am using? Are they all Nuance voices except for Alex and some of the low quality voices? I have surely noticed that when I

Re: Activity bug and Nuance voices was Re: advanced voice over?

2014-08-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
and using www.apple.com/feedback. On Aug 21, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote: How do I know if it's a Nuance voice that I am using? Are they all Nuance voices except for Alex and some of the low quality voices? I have surely noticed that when I want to change

Re: Activity bug and Nuance voices was Re: advanced voice over?

2014-08-21 Thread ronald smith
Your email was read to me using Voice on the Go. Go to www.voiceonthego.com Original Message: - From: Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com Sent: August 21, 2014 1:08:08 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Activity bug and Nuance voices was Re

Re: [440611] Nuance Voices Pronouncing Words as Letters/Numbers in 10.9.2

2014-03-03 Thread Matt Dierckens
. This one is different, though, and I'm curious to see how many of you agree. Personally, I find the Nuance voices in 10.9.2 speak to and for as numbers, and this throws off the speech quite a bit. It also makes everything sound like it was written on a phone keypad by someone in a hurry

Fwd: [440611] Nuance Voices Pronouncing Words as Letters/Numbers in 10.9.2

2014-03-02 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I don't usually forward Apple's responses, as they are all the same. This one is different, though, and I'm curious to see how many of you agree. Personally, I find the Nuance voices in 10.9.2 speak to and for as numbers, and this throws off the speech quite a bit. It also makes

Re: [440611] Nuance Voices Pronouncing Words as Letters/Numbers in 10.9.2

2014-03-02 Thread Donna Goodin
in other countries). Best, Donna On Mar 2, 2014, at 8:18 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Hi all, I don't usually forward Apple's responses, as they are all the same. This one is different, though, and I'm curious to see how many of you agree. Personally, I find the Nuance voices in 10.9.2

Re: [440611] Nuance Voices Pronouncing Words as Letters/Numbers in 10.9.2

2014-03-02 Thread David Taylor
forward Apple's responses, as they are all the same. This one is different, though, and I'm curious to see how many of you agree. Personally, I find the Nuance voices in 10.9.2 speak to and for as numbers, and this throws off the speech quite a bit. It also makes everything sound like

Re: [440611] Nuance Voices Pronouncing Words as Letters/Numbers in 10.9.2

2014-03-02 Thread Alex Hall
On Mar 2, 2014, at 8:18 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Hi all, I don't usually forward Apple's responses, as they are all the same. This one is different, though, and I'm curious to see how many of you agree. Personally, I find the Nuance voices in 10.9.2 speak to and for as numbers

Re: [440611] Nuance Voices Pronouncing Words as Letters/Numbers in 10.9.2

2014-03-02 Thread Donna Goodin
, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Hi all, I don't usually forward Apple's responses, as they are all the same. This one is different, though, and I'm curious to see how many of you agree. Personally, I find the Nuance voices in 10.9.2 speak to and for as numbers, and this throws off

Re: [440611] Nuance Voices Pronouncing Words as Letters/Numbers in 10.9.2

2014-03-02 Thread Mike Busboom
all, I don't usually forward Apple's responses, as they are all the same. This one is different, though, and I'm curious to see how many of you agree. Personally, I find the Nuance voices in 10.9.2 speak to and for as numbers, and this throws off the speech quite a bit. It also makes

Re: [440611] Nuance Voices Pronouncing Words as Letters/Numbers in 10.9.2

2014-03-02 Thread Daniel
is different, though, and I'm curious to see how many of you agree. Personally, I find the Nuance voices in 10.9.2 speak to and for as numbers, and this throws off the speech quite a bit. It also makes everything sound like it was written on a phone keypad by someone in a hurry. As you see

Re: [440611] Nuance Voices Pronouncing Words as Letters/Numbers in 10.9.2

2014-03-02 Thread Alex Hall
. This one is different, though, and I'm curious to see how many of you agree. Personally, I find the Nuance voices in 10.9.2 speak to and for as numbers, and this throws off the speech quite a bit. It also makes everything sound like it was written on a phone keypad by someone in a hurry

alex voice spelling words was: Re: [440611] Nuance Voices Pronouncing Words as Letters/Numbers in 10.9.2

2014-03-02 Thread Michael Marshall
. This one is different, though, and I'm curious to see how many of you agree. Personally, I find the Nuance voices in 10.9.2 speak to and for as numbers, and this throws off the speech quite a bit. It also makes everything sound like it was written on a phone keypad by someone in a hurry

Re: [440611] Nuance Voices Pronouncing Words as Letters/Numbers in 10.9.2

2014-03-02 Thread Matt Dierckens
. This one is different, though, and I'm curious to see how many of you agree. Personally, I find the Nuance voices in 10.9.2 speak to and for as numbers, and this throws off the speech quite a bit. It also makes everything sound like it was written on a phone keypad by someone in a hurry

Re: [440611] Nuance Voices Pronouncing Words as Letters/Numbers in 10.9.2

2014-03-02 Thread Nicholas Parsons
The other thing I have noticed in Mavericks and iOS 7 with the Karen voice is that it pronounces some vowel sounds incorrectly. Use Karen in Mavericks or iOS 7 to read the following word fragments, which all end in the letter a for alpha, and hear what I mean: 1. cinta Jacinta, dinta finta,

Re: [440611] Nuance Voices Pronouncing Words as Letters/Numbers in 10.9.2

2014-03-02 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
, and I'm curious to see how many of you agree. Personally, I find the Nuance voices in 10.9.2 speak to and for as numbers, and this throws off the speech quite a bit. It also makes everything sound like it was written on a phone keypad by someone in a hurry. As you see below, however, this Apple

using Nuance voices (was: Re: Digest for macvisionaries@googlegroups.com - 25 Messages in 10 Topics)

2012-07-26 Thread Alex Hall
...@gmail.com Jul 26 07:53PM -0400 Are these new to Mountain Lion, or are they the Nuance voices Lion introduced? -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) mehg...@gmail.com Mark BurningHawk Baxter markbaxte...@gmail.com Jul 26 05:25PM -0700 I skipped over lion (it was sleeping and I

something I've noticed with regard to the nuance voices

2011-11-25 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hey Mike, getting back on topic with the Nuance voices, yes, I did notice this as well with Voiceover. But when I ran either the RS Games or Chromevox, everything was normal. That's weird. Shawn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group

something I've noticed with regard to the nuance voices

2011-11-24 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hey everyone, regarding the issue of the nuance voices sometimes sounding weird, I've noticed something interesting. It only happens when using voiceover. When using another application that speaks such as chrome vox, the issue never happens. Also noticed another strange thing. When using

Glitch with Nuance Voices In Lion Getting Worse

2011-10-16 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hey guys. I don't know if any of you guys noticed but when using the Nuance voices with Voice Over in Lion 10.72, the bug with the freaky pitch changes has gotten worse. I like using Samantha a lot and it would be too bad if I had to use Alex for everything because of this bug. So I'd like

Re: Glitch with Nuance Voices In Lion Getting Worse

2011-10-16 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
In data Domenica 16 Ottobre 2011 12.27.55, Shawn Krasniuk bigbigshawn@gmail.com ha scritto: Hey guys. I don't know if any of you guys noticed but when using the Nuance voices with Voice Over in Lion 10.72, the bug with the freaky pitch changes has gotten worse. I like using Samantha a lot

RE: Glitch with Nuance Voices In Lion Getting Worse

2011-10-16 Thread Missy Hoppe
Krasniuk Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 6:28 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Glitch with Nuance Voices In Lion Getting Worse Hey guys. I don't know if any of you guys noticed but when using the Nuance voices with Voice Over in Lion 10.72, the bug with the freaky pitch changes has

Re: Glitch with Nuance Voices In Lion Getting Worse

2011-10-16 Thread David Eagle
see, there was a point to my message after all. The End! On 16 Oct 2011, at 11:27, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: Hey guys. I don't know if any of you guys noticed but when using the Nuance voices with Voice Over in Lion 10.72, the bug with the freaky pitch changes has gotten worse. I like using

Re: Glitch with Nuance Voices In Lion Getting Worse

2011-10-16 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hey David and all. When I first got the Nuance voices when Lion got launched, I used Samantha for everything, even reading emails. She was fine for the first 5 minutes of reading posts from this list and after 5 minutes that's when the pitch changes start. And that's when using a say all. One

Re: Glitch with Nuance Voices In Lion Getting Worse

2011-10-16 Thread Mike Arrigo
, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: Hey David and all. When I first got the Nuance voices when Lion got launched, I used Samantha for everything, even reading emails. She was fine for the first 5 minutes of reading posts from this list and after 5 minutes that's when the pitch changes start. And that's

A question about nuance voices in Lion

2011-07-28 Thread Ben J Bloomgren
Hi all, I have successfully gotten the Nuance voices to work (like a charm if I may say) in Lion. It even gets the complex tone rules of Thai correct, which is quite a feat! I had one question about the CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) voices. Does anyone have any experience to know whether

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-23 Thread Matt Dierckens
. If you use any of the Nuances voices, Samantha, Jill, Tom, etc, you cannot change pitch or intonation. Yes, I'm not kidding, you cannot change the pitch or the intonation for any of the Nuance voices. I've tried and thought for a moment that I had too much beer, but no, Samantha kept

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-22 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hey everyone. Just to clear things up, I've had the Nuance voices on my PC and you can't change the pitch or intonation of the voices. That's how Nuance programmed them, although for Tom I'm not sure why they didn't implement his ability of doing exclamations like they had in his demo

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-22 Thread Bart Bunting
. Oh well. Kind regards Bart On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 01:49:30 -0500, Shawn Krasniuk bigbigshawn@gmail.com wrote: Hey everyone. Just to clear things up, I've had the Nuance voices on my PC and you can't change the pitch or intonation of the voices. That's how Nuance programmed them, although

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-22 Thread James Malone
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 01:49:30 -0500, Shawn Krasniuk bigbigshawn@gmail.com wrote: Hey everyone. Just to clear things up, I've had the Nuance voices on my PC and you can't change the pitch or intonation of the voices. That's how Nuance programmed them, although for Tom I'm not sure why

Nuance voices

2011-07-21 Thread Shen
I hope Apple didn't rush implementing the voices too soon. But it certainly feels that way. If you use any of the Nuances voices, Samantha, Jill, Tom, etc, you cannot change pitch or intonation. Yes, I'm not kidding, you cannot change the pitch or the intonation for any of the Nuance voices

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-21 Thread Donna Goodin
of the Nuance voices. I've tried and thought for a moment that I had too much beer, but no, Samantha kept talking with the same pitch and intonation, no change. How disappointing. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-21 Thread Zachary Kline
soon. But it certainly feels that way. If you use any of the Nuances voices, Samantha, Jill, Tom, etc, you cannot change pitch or intonation. Yes, I'm not kidding, you cannot change the pitch or the intonation for any of the Nuance voices. I've tried and thought for a moment that I had too

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-21 Thread Shen
didn't rush implementing the voices too soon. But it certainly feels that way. If you use any of the Nuances voices, Samantha, Jill, Tom, etc, you cannot change pitch or intonation. Yes, I'm not kidding, you cannot change the pitch or the intonation for any of the Nuance voices. I've tried

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-21 Thread Zachary Kline
implementing the voices too soon. But it certainly feels that way. If you use any of the Nuances voices, Samantha, Jill, Tom, etc, you cannot change pitch or intonation. Yes, I'm not kidding, you cannot change the pitch or the intonation for any of the Nuance voices. I've tried and thought

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 10:34 PM Subject: Nuance voices I hope Apple didn't rush implementing the voices too soon. But it certainly feels that way. If you use any of the Nuances voices, Samantha, Jill, Tom, etc, you cannot change pitch or intonation. Yes, I'm not kidding, you

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
You're right Zack, I can't change them with the sapi5 versions either. Chris. - Original Message - From: Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 10:38 PM Subject: Re: Nuance voices Hi, I don't know about you, but I don't

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
making an observation. I'm sorry if you didn't take it as such. Chris. - Original Message - From: Shen goalb...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 10:42 PM Subject: Re: Nuance voices I'm can't confirm that in Windows. But if they are full

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-21 Thread Shen
...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 10:42 PM Subject: Re: Nuance voices I'm can't confirm that in Windows. But if they are full SAPI 5 compliant voices, such as NeoSpeech Julie, pitch and intonation can be changed. And do you really want