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
>
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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
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