Wow, I feel sorry for her husband. Can you picture asking your phone a question and it's your wife who replies and everybody and their sister is talking to your wife! I've heard some of the NLS talking book narrators speaking normally and it's pretty wird. I think the recording I have is of Jack Fox. So I can picture iPhone sounding like Susan as a real person.
Alan Sent from my iPad Air > On Sep 20, 2015, at 12:32 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Glad I read your message first, I was about to write one along the same > lines, then I cancelled it because I thought why add more traffic to the > list, but after I read your message I thought I also ask. I even Googled this > and found references as to the real people whose voices are behind SIRI, e.g. > the female US SIRI voice is based on Susan Bennett, but I didn't come across > Aaron and Nicky anywhere. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > christopher hallsworth > Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 12:05 AM > To: Viphone <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Siri voice for voice over > > Right. Can I ask, how the hell do you know the names of the Siri voices? > Because on my iOS devides at least, all I get is "Siri Male", "Siri Female" > etc. >> On 20 Sep 2015, at 07:26, Shawn Krasniuk <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Yeah I like the Siri voices for Voiceover too. I alternate between Gordon, >> the Australian male Siri voice and Martha, the British female Siri voice. I >> don't really care for the American siri voices, Aaron and Nicky, because >> Nicky has lost her inflection she had in previous iOS versions and Aaron >> kinda reminds me of Neospeech Paul. >> >> Shawn >> Sent From My White MacBook >> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk >> Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs >> Skype username: bbstheblindrapper >> Facetime: [email protected] >> >>> On Sep 19, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very >>> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But >>> just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be >>> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me. >>> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on >>> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of >>> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice, >>> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try >>> to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. 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