I have to say this lol
well since my days of using jaws have now gone away gone away days of
jaws have gone have gone away lol
well I was so fed up of eloquence because it just didnt do anything
for me. I like using vicky. wow would love to meet her lol I dare say
she's cute and cuddly lol so I use vicky and alex a lot of the time
and am happy with what they both do. and I am glad there are other
voices out there that can be used. say has anyone downloaded any new
voices for the mac or knows where I could get some?
lew
On 28 Feb 2008, at 22:22, Justin Harford wrote:
Hello
Not as slow as a snail. I would fully believe that Alex reads 300
words per minute. That is too slow. Before I updated I clocked my
average reading speed with Fred at 450 words per minute.
I have not tried the system voices but that is interesting that
people notice differences. it seems like they have done something
in voiceover in the way that it handles the synthesizers to make it
read with tonality and inflection which works great for Alex, but it
seems like they have just done the same for all the voices which
does not work for the more computer like voices like Fred.
It is certainly snappy, but I am still always surprised at how much
faster jaws can speak under winblos while maintaining clarity.
Again, our voices sound way better, but it comes at a cost of having
generally slower reading
It bothered me when I upgraded, but it does not bother me as much.
I would have never been annoyed by it if they hadn't messed up the
other voices.
Regards
Justin Harford
On Feb 28, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Kevin Reeves wrote:
A snail? Sounds snappy to me.
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hi well voice over speed at 100 percent is disappointing all
those claims are pointless marketing to use alex as he reads like
a snail smile
On 28 Feb 2008, at 10:40, David Poehlman wrote:
yes, system voice is different. for one thing, I don't think it
has
inflection or the pitch/something is different.
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It's weard for me though. At 100 percent system voice, he's slow.
At
100 percent VoiceOver speed, he's faster. When Alex, for
instance, is
announcing the time I can bairly hear t corectly. I must've dome
something to make it speak extremely fast, ans well.
On Feb 28, 2008, at 4:00 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
it's you, he's snappy for me.
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Subject: alex
hi all, is it me, or is alex really slow even at one hundred
percent
all these claims of 300 or more words a minute dont seem true to
me
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