I use Fred most of the time. I use Bruce for system announcements.
He kind of sounds like Arnold to me, so it's just too funny to have
him talking all the time. I suppose you can get used to anything,
but it'd take some doing.
Anyway, I'd really like to make some new ones, but I can't find any
documentation on how to create them. I've asked on the access-dev
list apple runs, and gotten no answer. <sigh> I'm sure the info is
on my drive somewhere, since I have the entire 900+MB (compressed) of
the developers documentation, but I've not found it yet in just
browsing around. I may have to do an actual search. *gasp*
On Jan 20, 2006, at 10:07 PM, Jane Jordan wrote:
Actually, I like the built-in voices. well, not *all* of them.
Agnes, Bruce, Vicky and Victgoria are my favorites. Fred is so-
so. For a default voice he's not bad I *guess*.
Jane
On Jan 20, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Travis Siegel wrote:
Heh, that's funny. Everyone loves the doubletalk voice. I always
thought it was too ... something. I can't put my finger on it,
but it just doesn't appeal to me. I think it's because it works
well at low speed, but when it gets raised up to the higher-end
where I usually keep things, it breaks up too much. Doubletalk
works well if you want really human sounding speech, but I've
found that human sounding speech doesn't do well when speed is
involved. I really like the Artic Technologies voice, but most
folks can't stand that one, and I think it's because most folks
I've talked to that don't like it, run it at speed 5 or 6, 7 at
the most. I always run it at 9, and like it just fine.
Elequence is a voice I've gotten used to, but it's certainly not
on the top of my favorites list. Most of it's misspeakings I
could fix with dictionary entries, so it doesn't bother me as much
as it used to, but I really don't like it much. Although, it
doesn't break up at higher speeds which is nice.
DecTalk is another voice that is good as long as you're not
running it at full speed. It too breaks up too much to be useful.
It must be something with the way they run the phoenemes together.
Ah well. It is after all only a means to an end, so as long as it
works, I'll continue using it, it just rubs me the wrong way
sometimes.
On Jan 20, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Dan Keys wrote:
Hi,
Boy, I'd love to have the double talk voices or Eloquence even.
On Jan 20, 2006, at 7:53 AM, David Csercsics wrote:
And another one it gets wrong is f l o p p i e s. It doesn't
think you
have boot floppies at all. They're flows apparently. Too bad we
can't
get the DoubleTalk voices in software.
