Hi, *grins* True. But Sam sounds clearer though. And what's up with her volume? It always sounded really low to me, compared to everything else even if I changed specific volumes.
Never mind that. 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 22, 2010, at 12:06 AM, Bryan Smart wrote: > Don't beat up on Anna too much. Anna is a freakin' leap of epic proportions > beyond her predecessor, Sam. I'm so happy that I'll never have to listen to > him again on new Windows systems. > > Bryan > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nicolai Svendsen > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:11 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Restated: Where Is Anna, on the Mac? > > Hi, > > Anna sounds like she's speaking into a pillow, anyway. She sounds ok, but > unfortunately, SAPI voices are not exactly responsive. > > I remember the thing where he demoed two voices. Alex and Anna speaking the > same thing. It was awesome. > > Regards, > Nic > > Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com > Skype: Kvalme > MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk > AIM: cincinster > yahoo Messenger: cin368 > Facebook Profile <http://www.facebook.com/people/Nicolai-Svendsen/509197277> > My Twitter <http://twitter.com/chojiro> > > On Apr 21, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Rob Lambert wrote: > > > 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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