I'm with you about not using Fred. It's very hard to understand him. He's too quiet, even though Voiceover's volume is at 100%. As for Alex going back to the way he was in Snow Leopard, I wouldn't go that far. He does sound a lot better though. He's an upgrade to Eloquence or eSpeak, the two most robotic sounding voices. I even use human sounding voices on Windows, but that's going off topic. I really hope that 1, they do fix the Nuance voices, and 2, maybe in the next version of OS X they'll let us use the Siri voices. Either that or port some more Loquendo voices to Vocalizer Expressive such as Dave US English and the two Australian voices, Alan and Grace. If they do port those last two, I hope they'll keep Karen. I don't care what they do with Lee, I can't stand his voice.
Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Feb 9, 2015, at 5:54 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com> wrote: > > I can’t use Fred at all; he mumbles too much. I don’t even think he’s > actually a formant synthesiser at all, though that’s rather hard to tell just > from listening to it even at faster rates. > > But no, Alex, you’re not imagining it; Alex has gone back to his old, > glorious self from the Snow Leopard days. Hallelujah! :) > > I did also notice that the Vocaliser voices improve over time; Daniel is > pretty awesome now and can actually be understood quite well, or could be if > not for the massive performance penalty. I used to have trouble with him > because his ss were rather indistinct, but they’ve fixed that now. > > Oh yeah—and this iMac is running Yosemite. Being in Windows for a while has > definitely raised my blood pressure, but I do miss formant synthesis quite a > bit. Eloquence, in particular; nothing quite like it for all-round > responsiveness and fast rates, not even Alex. > > Cheers, > Sabahattin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
