Hi Christopher. I think it depends on the hearing loss. I've worked with people for example with a hearing loss who find Alex unintelligible once you go a little above the default rate, but who can have compact Daniel cranked up remarkably fast. Personally I'd be delighted to have Eloquence on my Mac because Alex mispronounces far too much for my liking. The moral of the story is the more choice of TTS a screen reader company can offer, the better. Speech is extremely subjective. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org
> On 11/06/2015, at 6:28 am, christopher hallsworth <challswor...@icloud.com> > wrote: > > Might be coming next year <grin>. Seriously though, I don't ever want Apple > to remove Alex. He's fantastic for someone with moderately severe to profound > hearing loss which I have. The other voices included are fine, but doesn't > cut it like Alex. >> On 10 Jun 2015, at 18:46, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Ray. I don't really want Apple to get rid of Alex. I lve the fact that he >> takes breaths and everything. I am with you on one thing though, I hope >> Apple considers making the Siri voices available in El Capitan. After all, >> you can get them for NVDA in Windows so why can't it be done on the Mac? >> >> Shawn >> Sent from my White MacBook >> >> >> >>> On Jun 10, 2015, at 12:07 PM, Ray Foret Jr <rforet7...@comcast.net> wrote: >>> >>> Subject line pretty much says it all. Nothing against Alex mind you: but, >>> frankly, I reckon it's high time Apple adopted a new and much more updated >>> default voice. The new Siri male US English voice might perhaps be a good >>> choice. Here's hoping we see this one in Elcapitan. >>> >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray >>> >>> Still a happy Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone 6+ and Apple TV user! >>> >>> Sent from my Mac, >>> the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > -- > 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.
