Hi Gordon, I agree. He sounds a bit beefier in Lion than he did on Snow Leopard. in SL, I actually quite liked him, and I still do in 10.7, but he just sounds a lot rougher to me than he used to sound.
As for numbers, Apple still tries to control this. An example is that if you have a certain amount of numbers, Apple will interpret them as bar codes. An engineer even said as much, and I find this kind of wrong to assume. Regards, Nic On Aug 29, 2011, at 12:51 PM, Gordon Smith wrote: > Hi all > > Just taken a break from work because I wanted to post a response to Nic's > message regarding verbosity of numbers. > > Nic, you're quite correct. I totally forgot about the iVlx pronunciation > issue. I have to hold nmy hand up and say that I overlooked it totally, so I > retract my earlier comments regarding the verbosity of number. > > Nobody is above making errors, and I certainly did that on this occasion. > However, I find the Alex voice nauseating. He sounds as though he has his > fingers stuck up his nose and it's interesting because I don't remember him > sounding this bad in Snow Leopard. As I type I'm using the Alex voice. The > inflection seems to have changed for some reason. > > However, I was wrong on the numbers issue, by virtue of the fact that I > overlooked the iVox variable. > > Gordon > > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
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