Our favorite voice is Tom. Not everyone might like male voices, but to us Tom has the best voice. He sounds like such a real person, along with having an accent. It's probably why he's on some of the automated systems businesses like dish where you have interactive menues. and Tom is the default voice that newsline uses too. Our favorite female voice is Darby Bailey, She was the voice of tell me information, the voice of directory assistance for a t and t and directory assistance for verizon, the voice of U P S the voice mail for verizon's answer call, also voice mail voice for I think a t and t for landline phones, and the voice of many other businesses. We both wish her voice was on the iphone to be able to choose, and also to have her voice onother phones. I know this is a bit off topic in a way, but so many people have heard Darby and possibly you didn't know her name, but if you'd like to read more about her, here's the wikipedia page about her, and her very own site where she has a blog, does voice recordings, and you could hear her music and more: Wikipedia page about Darby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darby_Bailey Darby's site http://www.darbybailey.com/
Arlene and Wayne ----- Original Message ----- From: Cedric Green To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2020 1:44 PM Subject: Re: Are any other voices as consistently accurate as Samantha? On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 11:54 AM Curtis Delzer <[email protected]> wrote: Well, Samantha sounds like a smoker to me, and enhanced has funny little contextual issues with tone where normal Samantha to me is good. I use Alex, though the artificial "breathing" is extremely annoying, he can go faster with accuracy than about all other voices, though he is 800K of memory. Curtis Delzer HS K 6 V F O Rialto, CA [email protected] On 1/10/2020 8:47 AM, Alan Lemly wrote: > Shermeen, > > I expect we could get a lot of comments on this topic since TTS voice preference is so subjective and usually generates a lot of opinion expression. I personally find Samantha enhanced to meet my needs because I've found where I don't have a strong opinion to stick with the default option with computer choices. I use Samantha enhanced at 60% speed on my iPhone 8 and I make sure I add a custom pronunciation whenever she speaks a word or name incorrectly. I do try other voices from time to time but find I always return to Samantha enhanced. > > Alan Lemly > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shermeen Khan > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2020 10:23 AM > To: viphone > Subject: Are any other voices as consistently accurate as Samantha? > > The subject line basically says it all. Occasionally, I get bored of the default voice, and briefly experiment with another voice. I invariably go back to the default though, as they all seem to have one peculiarity or another: they either sound odd and distorted if sped up, pronounce too many words incorrectly, or are accented or inflect in such a way that doesn't sound natural to me. What voices are you all using, and what speed do you have them set to? What are your thoughts on frequency of correct pronunciation? > > Thanks, and have a great weekend. > > Shermeen > > -- > 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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Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/000301d5c7e7%245ec41820%241c4c4860%24%40calweb.com. I used to be ride or die for Ava but in IOS 13 I now love the new Siri female at 80%. The new voice was created using machine learning and not an actual human.I wish I could use it on JAWS as a Vocalizer Expressive voice. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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