Re: Installation of High Quality Voices

2013-10-01 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Robin, Well, Chris may be right as I may have had the HQ voice installed already and just had not activated it. Anyway, it's unfortunate that the voices we depend on aren't as good as in prior versions of the OS. I have communicated with Apple about this, but don't know whether they can

Re: Installation of High Quality Voices

2013-10-01 Thread BBS
Hi Les. I'm currently using the high quality Vocalizer Expressive Karen voice and I don't hear any of the issues you and other people are hearing. Maybe try to slow down your speech and see if that helps. Also, Apple really can't do anything about the voices as the Vocalizer Expressive voices

Re: Installation of High Quality Voices

2013-10-01 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Sean, Are the Vocalizer Express voices separate from the HQ voice that one downloads from within the Accessibility menu? My speech rate is set to 40%, and I'm pretty sure that slowing it down will not impact the clipping of vowels. Thanks. Les On Oct 1, 2013, at 2:04 PM, BBS

Re: Installation of High Quality Voices

2013-10-01 Thread Christopher Chaltain
I don't agree that Apple can't do anything about the voices from Nuance. Apple chose to go with Nuance as a provider. If Nuance isn't meeting Apple's needs, then Apple can go with another provider. Also, I'm sure some money is changing hands between Apple and Nuance, so I'm sure Apple has some

Re: Installation of High Quality Voices

2013-10-01 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
Hi. I'm not experiencing any problms with the karen voice either. It sounds slightly different, but is not cutting or clipping words etc. hth regards Maria and crew from australia email: bubbygirl1...@gmail.com check out www.95-the-mix.com where we play lots of great music On

Re: Installation of High Quality Voices

2013-10-01 Thread BBS
Hi Les. Actually, the compact and high quality voices are both from Vocalizer Expressive. And Maria, the reason why Karen sounds different is because Nuance has tweaked her voice in order to make her sound more human. I wish they would've done the same with other voices like Samantha, Daniel,

Re: Installation of High Quality Voices

2013-10-01 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
HI. I didn't like it at first but now that I'm used to it. I find it quite good. Blessings! maria and Joe chapman Email, iMessage fb: bubbygirl1...@gmail.com twitter: bubbygirl On 02/10/2013, at 6:16 AM, BBS bigbigshawn@gmail.com wrote: Hi Les. Actually, the compact and high quality

Re: Installation of High Quality Voices

2013-09-30 Thread Christopher Chaltain
Two thoughts. first, you may have been using the HQ voice all along, so you won't notice a difference. Second, I don't find the HQ voices in IOS 7 to be as good as those in IOS 6. I thought I was running the compact voice myself, until I actually switched to the compact voice and realized how