Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac?

; From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Caitlyn Furness > Sent: Monday, 14 March 2016 5:58 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac? > > just to add to this, Fuji is also a ki

RE: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac?

Yes good point, -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Caitlyn Furness Sent: Monday, 14 March 2016 5:58 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac

Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac?

no, I was referring o the dictation commands that are now available under accessibility. These types of functions have been available for the Macintosh for twenty years. You can add additional commands by using the automator. So for example if you had the automator run my AppleScript to hide

Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac?

Ok, are you referring to intellitalk, that I think was a word processor program, that had extremely normal-sounding speech, but was slow as ever? I loved that as opposed to prowords, that worked with the echo, and so did one of my classmates, so it was kind of a battle over it, and the only

Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac?

The spoken interface actually dated back to the v7 days. When UUNET got Macintosh computers for the sales staff in 94-95 there was already the ability to give spoken commands and get responses. And in fact if you remember from the Steve Jobs movie even the first Macintosh ad MacSpeech which

Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac?

name: Shawn Krasniuk >>>> Skype Username: bbstheblindrapper >>>> Facetime Username: bbssh...@icloud.com >>>> >>>> -Original Message- >>>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

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There was also a “Spoken Interface Preview”, which was the precursor to VoiceOver, introduced as a separate download for Mac OS X 10.3. Leopard was when things really started to shape up, and when Alex was introduced. It’s when I jumped on board the Macintosh train for sure. -- The following

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gt;> >>>> I think they ran out of cat types. >>>> >>>> Guess there are only a surtain number of names they can use. >>>> >>>> -Original Message- >>>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>> [mailto:macvisionaries@

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acvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray Foret jr > Sent: Sunday, 13 March 2016 12:30 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac? > > In which case, I’d have named the next Mac OS Cat

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ssage- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Devin Prater >> Sent: Saturday, 12 March 2016 10:11 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac?

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Jonathan Cohn wrote: > My memory is that 10.3 had UI Scripting the Macintosh equivalent of > Microsoft’s UIA to query applications and provide links for accessibility > tools. The next version after that was the one that had VoiceOver, but it > did not have nearly as much

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isionaries@googlegroups.com >>> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>] On Behalf Of Jessica Moss >>> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2016 7:38 PM >>> To: macvisionarie

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lto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jessica Moss >> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2016 7:38 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac? >> >> Think they forgot “Jaguar,” “lynx,” “bobbcat,” and tha

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ionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jessica Moss > Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2016 7:38 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac? > > Think they forgot “Jaguar,” “lynx,” “bobbca

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ames were all about Californian landmarks? >> >> Last time I checked Fuji was Japanese! >> >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Devin Prater >> Sent: Sa

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...@icloud.com -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jessica Moss Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2016 7:38 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac? Think

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ames were all about Californian landmarks? >> >> Last time I checked Fuji was Japanese! >> >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Devin Prater >> Sent: Saturday, 12 Marc

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> >>> >>> >>> -Original Message----- >>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Devin Prater >>> Sent: Saturday, 12 March 2016 10:01 PM >>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.

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>> -Original Message- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Devin Prater >> Sent: Saturday, 12 March 2016 10:01 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: could Siri's iPhone voice

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t;> >> -Original Message- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shawn Krasniuk >> Sent: Saturday, 12 March 2016 8:43 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: could Siri's iPhone

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: Saturday, 12 March 2016 10:11 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac? A few years ago they were about cats. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 12, 2016, at 3:04 AM, Simon Fogarty <si...@blinky-net.com> wrote: > > Thoug

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what i really want more than anything is language switching, i know it's on IOS but that is the one thing i loved about JAWS. if you came to a german word the German speech synthesiser would read it to make it sound authentic. > On 12 Mar 2016, at 6:43 PM, Shawn Krasniuk

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ought the OS names were all about Californian landmarks? >>>> >>>> Last time I checked Fuji was Japanese! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -Original Message- >>>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>>

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;>> -Original Message----- >>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Devin Prater >>> Sent: Saturday, 12 March 2016 10:01 PM >>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> Sub

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>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Devin Prater >> Sent: Saturday, 12 March 2016 10:01 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac? >

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ked Fuji was Japanese! > > > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Devin Prater > Sent: Saturday, 12 March 2016 10:01 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: could Siri's iPhone

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-Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Devin Prater > Sent: Saturday, 12 March 2016 10:01 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac? >

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@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac? That's the rumored name of the next OS. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 12, 2016, at 3:00 AM, Simon Fogarty <si...@blinky-net.com> wrote: > > So folks, what is Fuji? > > > > -O

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aries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shawn Krasniuk > Sent: Saturday, 12 March 2016 8:43 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac? > > Oh yeah. So will I. I'll probably be one of the first ones to spring for the &

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So folks, what is Fuji? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shawn Krasniuk Sent: Saturday, 12 March 2016 8:43 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming

RE: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac?

-Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray Foret jr Sent: Saturday, 12 March 2016 8:38 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac? Well, got news for yuh, Aaron

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Aaron, yes. But Zoey isn't the name of the female voice. The female voice is Nikki. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 12, 2016, at 1:43 AM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > > Oh yeah. So will I. I'll probably be one of the first ones to spring for the > public beta once it's released.

Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac?

Oh yeah. So will I. I'll probably be one of the first ones to spring for the public beta once it's released. And if our Macs can handle Fuji, I hope we'll get to use Siri. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs Skype username:

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Well, got news for yuh, Aaron is already on the iPHone. Under the default dialect, you’d click on what Apple calls the “male Siri” voice. Actually, that’s the newer Siri voice we got back with IOS8 but many of us thought it was strictly server side until a jail breaker discovered that in fact

RE: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac?

I heard something similar to that extent from a friend. I heard that Nuance was developing new voices for the Mac. One was called Zoey and the other was called Aaron. That would be cool if the rumors were true. I just hope that older Macs will be able to handle Fuji. A friend of mine said that