As is usually the case, I agree with Sieghard. On my Macs, I use Alex for the primary voice with Samantha enhanced for all notifications.
In iOS, I am definitely a Samantha enhanced, man, with the pitch option disabled. On Zoomtext, by the way, I prefer ViaVoice which is about as close as one can get to Eloquence without having Eloquence, itself. Of course, in Jaws, I only use Eloquence. On my Android devices, although there are some really nice voices, including Heather, which I used to prefer back in the old days of Windows Mobile, I now prefer and use the Google text-to-speech engine (female). It is very clean and crisp-sounding. I believe Eloquence is available in Android but only in the MobileSpeak interface. Despite all of the advances in speech synthesis, were I given the choice, I would definitely use Eloquence for all my voices, especially in iOS. Mark -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 6:25 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Voiceover voices Hi Marissa, Just as Dave said, the replies here will be all over the place. Alex definitely has a following, I personally can't listen to him for an extended period of time. Interestingly enough when I listen to Podcasts where the author uses Alex he doesn't sound so bad and my 6S Plus probably has the best sound of all the iPhones, but I always come back to Samantha Enhanced. Just last night I tried the enhanced male and female SIRI voices again and I think if I were to use one I prefer the male one, but like I said, when everything is said and done Samantha Enhanced still sounds best to me. It's really too ad we can't have Eloquence on the iPhone, that would be so awesome! Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2016 2:03 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Voiceover voices you will get everybody's own preference, with this question. at the end of the day, it is up to your own personal taste! Dave. -----Original Message----- From: rajmund Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 7:12 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Voiceover voices Hi, Samantha enhanced here, with pitch change disabled. Sent from a BrailleNote ----- Original Message ----- From: Devin Prater <r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Date sent: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 00:16:55 -0500 Subject: Re: Voiceover voices I use alex, and the British female Siri voice. 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