Hello All, I agree with you Jonathan. An official copy of Eloquence would be just fine with me. I tried Ava and the responsiveness was sluggish in comparison to Alex. Eventually, I needed to switch back to Alex.
Best, Eileen Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 10, 2015, at 12:16 PM, Jonathan Mosen <jmo...@mosen.org> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
