Hello Will,
It would certainly be good news if there were a Mandarin Chinese voice
added to the Infovox iVox voices from Acapela, since their voices are
very well tested for use with VoiceOver. However, unless you have
more direct information from them than has appeared in the exchanges
on this list, and beyond the replies that David Niemeijer (CEO of
Assistiveware) posted to your suggestion that they add such voices, it
would probably be better not to speculate.
There's a Mandarin voice sample on the Loquendo voice demo page:
http://www.loquendo.com/en/demos/demo_emb_tts.htm
As far as I know, none of the Loquendo voices have been developed for
use with VoiceOver on the Mac (so that they follow the speech control
API's that allow the voices to work integrally with the Mac OS X).
Some developers are using those voices for text to speech on the
iPhone and iPad.
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
william lomas wrote:
i think acapella are doing a manderin voice
On 24 Apr 2010, at 14:14, Esther wrote:
Hi Shen,
I'd like to know if there are Mandarin voices to use with
VoiceOver, too. There are Japanese voices that worked with
VoiceOver under Leopard from DTalker, but I don't know if they've
been updated yet for Snow Leopard. Here's the link to my post to
Yuma on this subject from the archives:
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg12502.html
(Japanese voice for the Mac)
There are some language learning programs that include voices for
text to speech, such as the Key2009 software:
http://www.cjkware.com/index.html
I haven't tried these, so I don't know whether they're accessible,
but the voices only do text to speech within the application program.
The iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad have Mandarin and Japanese voices
with VoiceOver on their version of the operating system (OS 3.1.2
or OS 3.2). However, switching voices is inconvenient. The iPad
(OS 3.2) has introduced a language rotor, which simplifies this.
The iPad is currently the Mac platform that would best support
Mandarin, although the iPhone operating system and applications are
more limited in capabilities than Mac OS X on the regular Macs.
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
Shen wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone know where I can get Japanese and Mandarin voices to use
with VoiceOver.
Thanks.
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