let's put it this way. pretty much all vocaliser sucks, particularly the
newer ones. Samantha is kind of tolerable, Kate has some weird emotions,
presumably because she was once a loquendo TTS, but the rest, no hope. I
wish we had acapela, but even in acapela, most of the males sound flat
and depressing. Sharon is just too deep. and don't get me started on
ivona. as for NeoSpeech, Kate sounds angry, she almost sounds like she's
yelling at you. LOL that's probably enough from me.
On 20/11/17 7:09 AM, [email protected] wrote:
I can kind of see the snotty teenager thing for Sally, now that you mention it.
sherin drives me nuts. Again, way, way, way too deep for my taste. Ava sort of
has the same problem for me. I can't stand Nuance's Alison, either--she sounds
so pissed off to me. You want to hear another seductive-type voice, listen to
NeoSpeech Julie. She sounds all breathy. A friend of mine really likes her, but
I'm not really a fan. I pull a face every time I visit a Chase ATM, because
she's the voice on there. Ugh. If they'd gone with Kate or James when they
switched from Eloquence, I'd be happier.
Thanks,
Ari
On Nov 18, 2017, at 10:06 AM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote:
Wow! I would never describe Sally as flat. Smile. This is so incredibly
subjective. I guess I can see why you call Kendra flat. I kind of think of it
as low-key, not too emotional, not in my face. To me, Sally sounds like a
snotty teenager. Sorry for the stereotype, but there you go. And there are
other voices like Ava and Sharon, for instance, that I think must have been
made to appeal to men, because they sound like they’re trying to be seductive.
Thanks but no.
Mary
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On Nov 18, 2017, at 9:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Mary, it's so funny how you can agree with someone on liking one voice, but not
agree with them about another voice. I can't stand Kendra. She's way too deep
for my liking, and her inflection is so flat, like Ivona Sally. I like a lot
about Sally, but her flatness drives me absolutely bonkers!
Thanks,
Ari
On Nov 14, 2017, at 7:30 AM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote:
I’m certainly with you on Neospeech James. I have him in voice dream reader,
and every time a new OS comes out, I keep hoping Apple will let me use him with
voiceover. I doubt it will ever happen. I’m also a huge fan of the ivona voice
Kendra, whom I also have invoice dream. She is by far my favorite woman voice
of any I have heard anywhere in English. I’m just so sorry that Amazon block
access and now they don’t even have her available for kindle products.
Mary
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On Nov 13, 2017, at 11:59 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I'm a huge, huge NeoSpeech fan, myself. If I could get Kate, James, Ashley, and
Bridget on my iPhone as system-wide voices, I'd die a very happy woman lol.
For now, though, I use compact Samantha. I can't stand her HQ version. She says
things all weird. she has weird up/down inflections in her voice between words
and within words. A ton of the Acapela voices have this issue, too. It's why I
can't stand Heather. The Ivona voices have this issue too, somewhat. But
probably my biggest issue with them is that they're so flatbe it's why Sally
drives me nuts. She's pleasant enough to listen to, if you can get over how
incredibly bored she sounds.
The other voices I use are conpact Karen (the same issues I have with HQ
Samantha I also have with HQ Karen) and the HQ version of the old female
British English Siri voice. Funnily enough, I actually prefer her HQ version.
Speaking of HQ old Siri voices, has Apple fixed the issue of not being able to
use these voices in other apps, like Voice Dream Reader and the Blindfold
games? I'd really love to use the HQ version of the old British English Siri
voice in these apps, but I can't. Either she doesn't show up, or when selected,
doesn't work, and the LQ version is used instead.
Thanks,
Ari
On Nov 12, 2017, at 5:27 PM, wui chin Leong <[email protected]> wrote:
Me too.i would love to have a paella heather
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On Nov 12, 2017, at 6:17 PM, Kerry Macdonald <[email protected]> wrote:
For me Alex will always be my number one man. I remember in 2014 how excited I
was that we had more choices than just Samantha for the American voices.
However I really enjoyed all of the enhanced voices that have been added in the
last year or so. My particular favorites in no particular order are Oliver,
Kate, Serena, Lee, Karen, Arthur, and American Siri mail. However although I
love these new voices I wish they would open it up and let us add other text to
speech engines such as the a cappella voices.
Kerry
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On Nov 11, 2017, at 9:04 PM, Maria Reyes <[email protected]> wrote:
Enhance their default?
Maria Reyes
Owner of the following groups: Apple 411: [email protected]
iMessage/FaceTime: [email protected]
On Nov 11, 2017, at 8:49 PM, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Maria,
I'm a Samantha man, through-and-through. For me, there is no one else. (smile)
Mark
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Subject: Favorite VO voices?
Hi all,
What is everyone's VO voice or voices? Mine are Alex and Nicky.
Maria Reyes
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