Hi Adi:
The new Arabic voice Tarik which replaced Majed is terrible, :-)
Also, I tested the enhanced Australian voice but quickly went back to
the compact voice as the enhanced did not sound as good. to me.
Cheers,
On 20/09/2013 00:22, Adi Kushnir 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.
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