Id like to know how to update the voices as well On 2012-07-29 9:27 AM, "Andrew Lamanche" <andrew.laman...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How do you update the voices? Are the Nuance voices the free voices that > Apple provides for Voiceover users? Forgive me if these questions appear to > be rather basic. > > Thanks > > Andrew > On 29 Jul 2012, at 12:32, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > > > Hi, > > The nuance issues are indeed fixed, keep in mind though that after > installing Mountain Lion, you have to go to the program update and look for > new updates. When you do, you will find a bunch of new voices amongst other > things. Just update everything and you'll be good to go. All the bugs in > the Swedish voice, including issues with how it pronounced certain > characters when typing with typing echo set to characters or when reading > character by character are gone and so are the pitch issues. Only time the > voices actually change pitch is when you delete a character or when you > press a character with the shift key helld down. > > Apple has indeed done a great job with this release. The one thing i > wish for is for dictation to support scandinavian languages. I hope it will > happen but i highly doubt it, just look at Siri on the IPhone which > supports many languages just not Swedish, Norwegean and other scandinavian > languages. > > /Krister > > > > 26 jul 2012 kl. 04:22 skrev Mike Arrigo <n0...@charter.net>: > > > >> I was hoping they fixed the nuance voice issues. Does anyone know if > there is a key stroke to access the notification center? For example, you > can press control+f8 for the status menus, control+F2 for the menu bar, > etc. Is there a keystroke for notifications? > >> On Jul 25, 2012, at 8:57 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > >> > >>> Hey guys. I was thinking of using the Siri dictation feature to write > this message, but after trying to send a message to Kimsan and seeing that > it entered something that I didn't say, I figured I'd write this myself. So > with that being said, I must say that Apple did a freaking awesome job with > Mountain Lion. My favorite features so far have been the Siri dictation, > even though it hears what it wants to hear sometimes, the ability to update > more than one App in the App store, and yes, the ability to use some third > party Apps that weren't accessible to us in the past. Now I can use > Menuweather, the app that I complained that wasn't accessible a few months > ago, and change whatever settings I need. Also, for Infovox Ivox 3 users, > your voices will continue to work. You don't need to download any patches > or anything. > >>> I did notice a couple of bugs though. The first one is something that > this list has talked about when Lion first launched, and that is the > booting up time. For me, when I came home from work and booted up my > machine, I pretty much had to wait for about 2-3 minutes before Voiceover > started talking. Also, in both Lion and Snow Leopard, both Adium and Skype > launched right away after startup. In Mountain Lion, It takes a minute for > both apps to launch. These aren't deal breakers though, just minor > hinderances. As for the Nuance voices, I'm not gonna even bother using them > with Voiceover if they're still making those stupid pitch changes. Why > would I if I have Tracy from Acapela? > >>> Anyway, all in all, this is a fantastic upgrade, better than Lion in > my opinion. I hope you all have fun with Mountain Lion, as I sure am. > >>> > >>> Shawn > >>> Sent from my white Mac Book > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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. 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