Thank you, That explains why I can listen at a much faster rate now. HTH,
Richard (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) > On Sep 19, 2013, at 4:22 PM, "Adi Kushnir" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > As one who uses the new Nuance Vocalizer Expressive voices to develop with > them for other platforms, I wanna to explain to you all, what are the iOS 7 > voices and which of them are being used when. > So, let's start from sirie: > The new and better Sirie voices are not Vocalizer Expressive voices. > These are custom voices that Nuance or some other company makes a specially > for Apple, I think it's Nuance because Apple always works with them on TTS > related stuff. > > Now, let's move on to VoiceOver: > In iOS 6, Apple used the Nuance Vocalizer for automotive version 5.5 platform > for it's screen reader and Sirie. > Since Nuance stopped supporting and developing Vocalizer for Automotive, and > released Vocalizer Expressive, in iOS 7, Apple has swiched to using these > voices for VoiceOver. > Most of them sound the same as the previous generation of Vocalizer, such as > Samantha Premium for example, they just read longer texts better. > The Vocalizer Expressive platform contains some new and very expressive > voices, but Apple decided to use the ones that wer already available, because > they are still offerd with Vocalizer Expressive, or VE for short. > Some other facts that thanks to them you can know it's the new Expressive > version, are the bad compact voices, a specially Daniel, and the new voices > for some languages such as Arabic, they have replaced Maged with Tarik for > this language because Nuance doesn't offer Maged any more. > Vocalizer Expressive has a Hebrew voice as well, so I hope Apple will add it > soon too:) (Smile). > > Hope now you understand it better.. > > Adi. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > 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]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
