That's why I gave up on Alex. He sounds okay in promos or quick snippets, but I quickly found him to be annoying for real work. My personal favorites for speech are either Lee or Serena. Give those and the other Nuance voices a try (assuming you have 10.8) and see what happens. On Jun 26, 2013, at 1:56 PM, "Christina C." <blindmaclo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmmm, one example is that in the subject line of this email, Alex says oddly > with a distinctive H sound at the beginning like its spelled HODDLY. If I > spell out the last name Solden but I refer to the whole family as the Soldens > then Alex speaks "S" it sounds like he actually says es with the s sound > drawn out very slowly. Alex does all of these weird things in any environment > even if I am typing or having voiceover read something I just typed I do not > have caps lock on. I get an alert sound if I type in caps lock. Sometimes VO > reads in ways that are difficult to explain. Sometimes it acts as if there > are a weird string of characters in the middle of a word. Sometimes Alex just > leaves letters from the beginning or the end of words off. I wish I could pin > point the problem or the exact time when it happens but it's just all over > the place. It's really annoying when I keep thinking I typed a document > incorrectly only to find that voiceover is just reading incorrectly and it > wastes a ton of my time. I will try to remember more examples. I do notice > it the most when using iMessage on my mac though. > . > Sent from Christina's iMac :) > > On Jun 26, 2013, at 6:19 AM, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, Christina, >> >> Can you give an example of a mispronounced word? Are only parts of words >> being pronounced? Is Alex only mispronouncing what you type? This has >> happened to me when I have caps lock enabled. If you can give any examples, >> folks might have more of a handle on what's going on. :) >> >> HtH, >> Teresa >> >> Winging its way from my iPod >> >> On Jun 25, 2013, at 10:33 AM, "Christina C." <blindmaclo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> I don't know what has been going on lately but voiceover has been speaking >>> oddly and I can't seem to find any settings anywhere that would affect >>> these changes. I am using the voice Alex in the United States. Alex will >>> just randomly say words incorrectly then I will back up over the word >>> then Alex will speak the word correctly but if I go forward over the word >>> Alex speaks it incorrectly. I also cannot find anywhere in the settings to >>> get Alex to stop reading roman numerals, particularly the letter C or D >>> when it is all alone on a website, Alex will say 300 or 500 and it took me >>> forever to figure out that it was actually the letter C or D. >>> >>> Thanks for any help, I wasn't sure if I should purchase a new voice or >>> something. I don't know. I really don't want to do that. I just want Alex >>> fixed. >>> >>> >>> Sent from Christina's iMac :) >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
