Hey Mark. Is it possible to generate voice clips with other TTS engines on the Mac? When I set up my girlfriend's shuffle with VO, it automatically used Alex, and I didn't have any choices. I wanted to use one of the Acapella voices from Infovox, but wasn't able to do that even when I had set up the system voice to Lucy or Rachel. Any ideas?
Cheers Thuy On 10/05/2010, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am cross-posting this to both the Mac and iPhone mailing lists for reasons > that I hope members of both will understand. If not, then, I hope you will > appreciate the mystery. (Smile) > > CHAPTER 1: > As my iPhone 3GS is my primary means of communicating with the outside > world, VoiceOver is the synthesizer I use the most. As we all know, the > lovely Samantha is the US English voice/personality. Unlike many I have > talked to, I really adore her and for quite a while have been searching for > a way to bring her to my MacBook Pro. The search has not gone well. > > CHAPTER 2: > I exercise 5 days out of the week. I run between 6 to 7 miles during each > session. Until recently, I was moderately satisfied with an off-the-shelf > MP3 player, used to listen to either music or podcasts during my runs. It > had always been my intention to purchase RockBox but, as I do not own a > compatible device, the purchase had been placed on the virtual shelf, to > coin a phrase. > > CHAPTER 3: > Three days ago, I stopped in at one of my local Apple stores. While there, > I decided to purchase a 16GB Black 5th Generation iPod Nanno. > > Upon attaching the Nanno to my Windows iTunes PC, I discovered that I could > generate the menu and items voice from any of my computer system's installed > voices. As I have both ZoomText and Jaws installed on the computer in > question, I have a wide variety of high quality SAPI 5 voices from which to > choose. I was almost ready to make a selection when I discovered that there > is an option to generate the Nanno's spoken menu and items synthesizer using > VoiceOver. > > Generating spoken menus and items using VoiceOver via a Windows > computer????? Yep!!! You heard me right. > > Ever the Curious George, I selected this option. > > Imagine my delight to discover that after iTunes and the Nanno danced the > Technology Tango, I found that my old love, Samantha, is the synthesized > voice on my new Nanno. > > CHAPTER 4: > So, instead of purchasing both a new MP3 player and a copy of RockBox, I > will now use my new Nanno, graced with the presence of my beloved Samantha, > to, as the saying should have gone, "Run west, young man, run west." > > Oh! And for those of you who may be wondering why I simply don't use my > iPhone 3GS as an MP3 player during my runs? It's because I can more easily > protect the Nanno against sweat and damage. Also, I prefer to conserve as > much battery power on my 3GS as possible. > > The End > > Mark > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
