Hi Karen,
Sadly, the last time I tried out edge chromium on my Mac, these neural
voices didn’t show up in the list to pick a voice when reading aloud.
So, I am assuming they are not available yet for mac users. Personally,
in my windows PC I always read articles on the NY times using the male
American voice, which I really like.
As for the matter of one voice for task or program, I’m totally on board
with your opinion. However, in this particular case, I believe that the
feature of reading out loud in edge chromium is intended for users in
general, and not exactly for visual impaired users.
Going further, I flatly believe that these human sounding voices are the
future for the synthesizers as we know them. I’m not saying this is good
or bad, but a foreseeable scenario in any case.
Best,
Leo
On 6/27/2020 6:39 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Hi Leo,
I assure you that such things matter to many, even if native speakers.
May I ask where to locate neural voices?
Would I be correct in guessing that, these voices cannot be
incorporated into voiceover as an option?
Its profoundly frustrating, the lack of understanding that some folks
desire one or two clear quality voices for their computing needs,
instead of this odd idea of one voice per task for per program.
After all in theory adaptive tools serves as extension of or
substitutions for, or combinations of physical activity in many cases.
I do not use one pair of hands to do the dishes, and another pair for
typing.
Fully respecting individual choices, speaking personally, why should I
apply one voice for banking and another for reading e-mail?
Kare
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020, Leo Bado wrote:
I find neural voices far more natural when reading large articles.
For me everything is better, intonation, in-flexion, naturalness, and
pronunciation. Objectively speaking, these characteristics are very
important for me since I'm not a native English speaker, but I
understand that they might not make much of a difference for a native
English speaker. Well, what can I say? for the most part, this is a
subjective matter
Best,
Leo
On 6/27/2020 12:47 PM, Brad Snyder wrote:
Why don't you just use VoiceOver to read articles on the Internet when
using Edge on a Mac??
- Brad -
On Jun 27, 2020, at 13:15, Leo Bado <leobado1...@gmail.com> wrote:
well, yes, I tried it out some weeks ago and it worked just fine;
however,
I was expecting that the neural voices worked on the mac as well, but
sadly, they don't... and for me this feature it's very important
since I
usually read articles on internet. I don't know if those voices are
working on the latest release, but if someone gives it a try, let
us know.
Best,
Leo
On 6/27/2020 9:21 AM, Mike Arrigo wrote:
> I decided to give the new Microsoft Edge browser a try, it works
very > well. You can definitely tell that it's based on code from
Chromium > since voiceover reads things very similarly to how
things read in > Chrome, but there are some differences. I'm not
sure if Microsoft took > steps to make Edge accessible or if this
was automatic from how Chromium > is designed, either way, we now
have another accessible browser on Mac > OS and that's a good thing.
>
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