I haven't noticed Alex sounding robotic. Maybe because I've been using him all the time. I've gotten used to him. So was Alex's voice record from a human's voice?
Maria Reyes Owner of the following groups: Apple 411: [email protected] iMessage/FaceTime: [email protected] > On Oct 20, 2017, at 9:51 PM, Flor Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > > No problem with unpredictable. I said the problem was with the apostrophe: > particularly before a word, the way JAWS' Eloquence chooses not to ignore > 'quote' - whatever level you set the customize punctuation to. (This > Eloquence is the most recalcitrant synth with that ' character.) > > -----Original Message----- From: Jewel > Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2017 1:13 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Why Does Everyone Like iOS Alex so Much? > > Flor! Perhaps you could fiddle aroung in your Jaws dictionary to improve > Jaws handling of some > words. He: Rocky or Reed, I can't remember which one I use said > unpredictable perfectly. > He does, with some justification, have difficulty with pronouncing many Maori > words, but trying out > a few imaginative spellings and adding them to the Jaws dictionary can help a > great deal. > I wrote a piece for some of my other lists that contained the Maori name > Kupe, and Jaws, quite > naturally, pronounced it Kupe, but when I went to the dictionary and in the > spot for "actual word" > wrote in Kupe, and then in "replacement word" Koopay, he had it perfectly, or > as perfectly as we > pakehas [par keh hars] choose to make it. The e is actually pronounced as > you would the e in > step. > Now here is an oddity. When I wrote pakehas into fonetics, he had the entral > e, just about right, > but when I tried writing the e of Kupe as e h, he swallowed it, so Koopay it > will stay as far as the > dictionary is concerned. > > Jewel > > ------ >> From: "Flor Lynch" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2017 12:14 PM > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Why Does Everyone Like iOS Alex so Much? > > 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. > > > -- > 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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