I must agree I prefer to listen to female voices. I love the Compaq voices on the iPhone for some reason they just seem to sound better then the HQ voices Sent from my iPhone
> On Oct 20, 2017, at 6:14 PM, Flor Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > > Eloquence was formed in a time before live human voices in wave form were > recorded by computers and then analysed and so their speech was spliced up, > etc., and made to apply to different contexts. So Eloquence isn't really a > synthesized human voice, in the way that others (such as the aforebemoaned > Alex are said to be). I thought I was liking Vocaliser Expressive voices (as > they work with JAWS) but became disenchanted with eac one I tried after a few > week or few months' use. (Wrong intonations, off pronunciations, etc.) I like > James enough, though. (He also has a bit too much misplaced intonation at > times!) But if I want a relaxing read of something long, then James will do. > With JAWS, I went back to Eloquence, which I'm using. Its faults (and it has > some bad ones, such as saying 'apostrophe' are predictable. > > My iPhone voice is female and Irish (Moira). JAWS does something to her voice > on the PC so that it doesn't sound as 'pleasant' as on the iPhone. (Many > fellow irish dislike her, preferring instead the UK Daniel voice. - Me, no. > > -----Original Message----- From: Jewel > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 11:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Why Does Everyone Like iOS Alex so Much? > > I also think that the Eloquence voices are the best, but someone said > something about "humanised" > voices sounding very * weird. > I have to take exception with that statement as I find the aforesaid > eloquence voices to be very > humanised and they do not sound, in the least, weird to me. > > Jewel > > -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "K. Scott Carlson" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2017 1:38 AM > To: <[email protected]>; "Larry Lumpkin" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Why Does Everyone Like iOS Alex so Much? > > I agree; Eloquence is still my favorite and I haven't found anything to > replace it. I actually find the "human" sounding voices to sound really > weird. > > >> On 10/20/2017 8:37 AM, Larry Lumpkin wrote: >> Synthesizer voices are highly subjective and very much a matter of personal >> taste. I like >> eloquence and wouldn't use another voice if I had a choice and would do so >> if IoS offered it but >> that is just my personal preference. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of K. Scott Carlson >> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 7:33 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Why Does Everyone Like iOS Alex so Much? >> >> The subject pretty much says it all. I've tried using his voice a >> number of times, and it >> sounds weirdly robotic and muffled to me. Not appealing at all. What is the >> appeal for people, >> since it was such a big deal when it was added? >> >> >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a >> member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators >> directly rather than >> posting on the list itself. >> >> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: >> [email protected]. 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