But in one area Alex is sorely deficient as compared to Eloquence  in that he 
does not gurhrhrhrhr properly.  Hummmmm, clearly time for a high priority growl 
at the mac accessibility group!!

Great discovery Andy!!
Geoff

On Nov 19, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Carolyn Haas wrote:

> Hi Andy:
> In fun, I'll say you obviously don't have enought work to do.:)
> 
> I'm a big fan of trying to get these speech synthesizers to say funny things. 
>  If you type several o's in a row, and put a question mark at the end, he'll 
> sort of sing, though the O is just a waivery repeat.  Still, it's amusing the 
> first time.
> I know it seems a strange thing to waist time on, but some days anything that 
> brings a smile is welcome
> 
> 
> On Nov 18, 2010, at 4:04 PM, Andy Lane wrote:
> 
>> Hi, Obviously we all know and love that alex breathes like a real
>> person but I noticed something today that I hadn't before, he can say
>> pssssst. I thought that was so fun I tried a few more noises and only
>> managed to find a few, I found hummmm and shhhh.  I love that Apple
>> included these I certainly don't have anything so human sounding or
>> fun in Neospeech Kate which is the TTS I use at work with zoomtext.
>> Anyway, just wanted to share that incase you didn't know.  Also if
>> anyone knows any others I'd love to know them too.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> Andy
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