I like the eloquence the most, that's why I am still using my android phone along with my iPhone for last 2 years. I am waiting eloquence to come for iOS.
On 10/22/17, Maria Reyes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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