Please, give me the instructions again for finding other voices on the iPhone. I went to accessibility and then to rotor languages. All I could find in there was Siri voice for American. What is the HQ voice? Am I confusing the fact that there are other English spoken apps such as Australian and British and Irish and not understanding that there is only one American voice, Siri or as I think I heard it called vocalize? As you can see I know nothing about synthesizers. Sorry. Thanks for help. Reggie
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Mannion Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 11:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: other synth for voiceover on iphone? I think that is definitely a current short coming of the IPhone that vocalizer has horable pronounciation on so many things. For the record I use the HQ American English voice. I also find it unfrotunate that each app that is self voicing has to install its own synth or even another copy of one already on the system. On the positive I have few or no complaints about vocalizer responsiveness. That is when it has not gotten hung up. Having said that though, those android users are going to have to hope their pronounciation from their synth is quite good because Android still does not give you a way to read things by word or by character unless you are in the Code Factory suite of apps. Even ICS if you can even get that yet on your device does not allow reading by character or by word. To me that is major functionality missing from a screen reader. Until pronounciation is perfect one can not begin to say it is not necessary to be able to examine by word or character. When android takes screen reader functionality seriously I will consider taking them seriously. On 8/2/12, Regina Alvarado <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the specificity David. I am off to see if there is anything I > will be able to understand a little better with my hearing aids. Funny > that > even with hearing aids and all the tweaking I did that Voice Over can still > say a word that completely goes right over my hearing aids! > > Reggie > > > > > > _____ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of David Chittenden > Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 5:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: other synth for voiceover on iphone? > > > > Hello, > > > > Go in to Settings, General, Accessibility, VoiceOver, Language Rotor and > select the languages you want. For english, there are 5 selections. Each > selection is a different voice. Turn your rotor to languages and > single-finger swipe up and down to move through your selected languages. > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > > Email: [email protected] > > Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On 03/08/2012, at 8:58, Regina Alvarado <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good, have wanted to ask for a while. Are other voices besides the > American > VO available to me? If so, how do I get them? Can I do it from my iPhone? > > Reggie > > > > > _____ > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of erik burggraaf > Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 1:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: other synth for voiceover on iphone? > > > > Well, speech is down to personal preference. I don't like vocalizer. If I > did, I'd probably have a choice to use it on my android. Lots of people do > like it. If not, you have choices. You just install a new synth and off > you go. > > > > Where-as on IPhone, the speech API is locked town so you can't have > system-wide voices or choose to use a different speech engine with your > voiceover. Which addresses the original question. > > > > Best, > > > > > > Erik Burggraaf > > Introducing Ebony Consulting business card transcription service, starting > at $0.45 per card or $35 per hundred cards. > > Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 > > or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com > > > > On 2012-08-02, at 1:20 PM, Jordan Gallacher wrote: > > > > > > > > > Nope I was using SVOX. Apple has done a great job and I don't see any > reason for them to need to change the synthesizer API. The only issue I > have is one app that uses VoiceOver instead of its own speech, which means > that the screen is on when the phone is in my pocket. So far though, that > has not even been a problem. > > Jordan > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Oferik burggraaf > Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 12:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: other synth for voiceover on iphone? > > > > You probably had pico which is the default speech. It makes my ears bleed. > You can get ivona or loquendo and they are much better. > > > > Best, > > > > Erik Burggraaf > > Introducing Ebony Consulting business card transcription service, starting > at $0.45 per card or $35 per hundred cards. > > Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 > > or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com > > > > On 2012-08-02, at 12:42 PM, Jordan Gallacher wrote: > > > > > > > > No its not. When I had an Android phone, the speech was saying things > wrong. The speech on the iPhone gets everything I have thrown at it > correct. > > Jordan > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > <mailto:%5bmailto:[email protected]%5d> On Behalf Oferik burggraaf > Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 6:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: other synth for voiceover on iphone? > > > > This is a major detraction of the IPhone. I've put in a request several > times to have apple open up the speech API so that synthesizers could be > shared across applications but nothing doing. > > > > It's not even just voiceover. It's all self-voicing applications. If I > buy > acapella voices for prismo, and then I want to use them in navigon, forget > it. If I buy loquendo voices for my voice communication aid and want to > use them in prismo, sorry, nop. > > > > One reason I especially love my android is that I have a choice of ivona, > loquendo, svox, and hopefully soon acapella voices that will work with > talkback and any other application I choose. > > > > Vocalizer isn't as bad as svox or pico, but if it's an improvement on > realspeak I'm not sure how. It's pronunciation is pretty horrible. It's > useless for street names in gps applications for example. > > > > Best, > > > > Erik Burggraaf > > Introducing Ebony Consulting business card transcription service, starting > at $0.45 per card or $35 per hundred cards. > > Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 > > or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com > > > > On 2012-08-02, at 3:13 AM, Joseph Lee wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > No (BTW, VoiceOver uses Vocalizer, which is an improvement compared to > RealSpeak). > Cheers, > Joseph > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > <mailto:%5bmailto:[email protected]%5d> On Behalf > Of Dave Bahr > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 11:30 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: other synth for voiceover on iphone? > > Hi, is it possible to use another synth with voiceover if I don't really > like the realspeak voices on my iphone? If so what can I use? > > -- > > Dave C. 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