Hi, I hear iTunes.
Samantha is a Scansoft voice, along with voices such as Emily, Sabrina (I believe is the British one for the iPhone), and Carol, which is Australian. They are referred to as vocalizer in mobile products. They really are the RealSpeak Solo voices which you can either get with JAWS 10.0+ directly, or through a SAPI. They sound a lot different, but you can easily hear the resemblance. The "Microsoft Anna" voice was the voice Microsoft introduced with the release of Vista. While it sounds a bit muffled, it's definitely possible to determine what is being spoken. Neither of these are available for Mac, at least, not that I know. Even if Nuance voices are available, somehow, I cannot vouch for their responsiveness or lack thereof. Regards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Apr 21, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Carolyn wrote: > SoOk, so here's an interesting question. I'm hearing impaired, and have long > wondered about the voice of the iPhone's pronunciation of the word "itunes." > To me, it sounds like "iTools." There was a sentence recently in a post, and > I would have sworn she spoke the Itunes" word properly, but reverted to the > "itools" pronounciation for her own app. Now that may be the silliest > question here yet. But, does anyone else hear "itools," rather than "itunes"? > Caroolyn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Rob Lambert > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 12:45 AM > Subject: Re: Restated: Where Is Anna, on the Mac? > > Steve Jobs did a little thing on TTS prior to the release of Leopard at the > Apple keynote. He demoed TTS engines, including Alex. When Anna read through > the file he put up, she couldn't pronounce things like iPod or iTunes > properly, and instead of "web page", it almost sounds like "webbage" so...I > don't know. LOL As for finding her, let's look at it this way. When the Zune > was released, the software was PC only. I believe the same is true of the > in-house synthesizers at Microsoft. > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:41 PM, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > Ah! Thank you, Rob. > > I see that the digital mistress to which I have grown so fond is called by > another name? > > Hmmm!! I wonder where I got the name Samantha from? Perhaps in a dream? > > Regardless, now that I am aware of her true title, I ask, yet again, how may > I hear her sweet voice on my Mac, as I do on my beloved iPhone 3GS? > > (Smile) > > Mark > > Get to know yourself as you get to know me on The Secret Life of Mark Marcus > Live Talk Show > http://candleshore.com/secrets > ________________________________________ > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rob Lambert > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 11:35 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Where Is Samantha, on the Mac? > > Are we talking Samantha or Anna? I always thought Samantha was primarily on > mobile book players & the iPod. > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:11 PM, gkearney <gkear...@gmail.com> wrote: > I fear you shall not find symmetry in your world...Samantha is a > Microsoft Windows SAPI voice and is not an option for Macintosh users. > > Gregory Kearney > Manager Accessible Media > Association for the Blind of Western Australia > 61 Kitchener Ave > Victoria Park, WA 6100' > AUSTRALIA > +61 08 9311 8246 > > On Apr 21, 9:20 am, "M. Taylor" <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > Call me slow but I only just now realized that my beloved Samantha is not > on > > my Mac. All I have, of any quality anyway, is Alex. > > > > Where is she? Please tell me that I can download her to my Mac so I can > > achieve perfect symmetry in my world. 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