Re: [Audyssey] Games and Ivona

2013-05-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Chris,

Yes, the Ivona voices are some of the best I've ever had the pleasure
of using. As I mentioned to Dark over on the Forum I like using Ivona
Joey as my play by play announcer in Jim's Football because it sounds
so human and just sounds right as a play by play announcer.  Ivona Amy
would probably make a good Lara Croft substitute for a Tomb Raider
game. :D

Cheers!


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 Speaking of Sapi Output, I am finding Ivona Tts to work superior with
 games that use Sapi as output. I use Amy which is one of the British
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Re: [Audyssey] Games and Ivona

2013-05-04 Thread dan cook
this is useful as I was just about to ask what voices you guys would
recommend for a 64 bit system.



On 5/4/13, Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Chris,

 Yes, the Ivona voices are some of the best I've ever had the pleasure
 of using. As I mentioned to Dark over on the Forum I like using Ivona
 Joey as my play by play announcer in Jim's Football because it sounds
 so human and just sounds right as a play by play announcer.  Ivona Amy
 would probably make a good Lara Croft substitute for a Tomb Raider
 game. :D

 Cheers!


 On 5/4/13, Chris H christopher...@gmail.com wrote:
 Good evening all.
 Speaking of Sapi Output, I am finding Ivona Tts to work superior with
 games that use Sapi as output. I use Amy which is one of the British
 voices.
 Chris.
 --

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 challswor...@sky.com
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Re: [Audyssey] Games and Ivona

2013-05-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dan,

Well, if you are willing to spend the money the Ivona voices work with
Windows 7 64-bit and Windows 8 64-bit systems, and are about the
closest you can get to human sounding voices. The voices from Cepstral
also work with 64-bit Windows as well, but they are rather choppy and
I've actually had issues installing them on some computers. So in my
opinion the Ivona voices is a better deal.

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 this is useful as I was just about to ask what voices you guys would
 recommend for a 64 bit system.



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Re: [Audyssey] Games and Ivona

2013-05-04 Thread Chris H
Hey I wouldn't even use Ivona on Windows 8 as the voices shipped are 
superior in sound and quality.



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On 04/05/2013 19:35, Thomas Ward wrote:

Hi Dan,

Well, if you are willing to spend the money the Ivona voices work with
Windows 7 64-bit and Windows 8 64-bit systems, and are about the
closest you can get to human sounding voices. The voices from Cepstral
also work with 64-bit Windows as well, but they are rather choppy and
I've actually had issues installing them on some computers. So in my
opinion the Ivona voices is a better deal.

On 5/4/13, dan cook dan.sc...@gmail.com wrote:

this is useful as I was just about to ask what voices you guys would
recommend for a 64 bit system.




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Re: [Audyssey] Games and Ivona

2013-05-04 Thread Desiree Oudinot
I was wondering, if you download the Ivona voices in Klango, are they
available to other applications? You can get them for free that way,
although every time I ever tried to download them it was painfully
slow, so I gave up. If I could use them as Sappi 5 voices, though, I
may try again.

On 5/4/13, Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Dan,

 Well, if you are willing to spend the money the Ivona voices work with
 Windows 7 64-bit and Windows 8 64-bit systems, and are about the
 closest you can get to human sounding voices. The voices from Cepstral
 also work with 64-bit Windows as well, but they are rather choppy and
 I've actually had issues installing them on some computers. So in my
 opinion the Ivona voices is a better deal.

 On 5/4/13, dan cook dan.sc...@gmail.com wrote:
 this is useful as I was just about to ask what voices you guys would
 recommend for a 64 bit system.



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Re: [Audyssey] Games and Ivona

2013-05-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Chris,

I'll agree the new SAPI voices on Windows 8 are fantastic. I agree I
wouldn't recommend a new Windows 8 user purchasing the Ivona voices
since the new SAPI voices are good enough. However, many people like
myself purchased a Windows 7 64-bit machine a year or so back, and
since the only 64-bit voices available on the system at the time were
Anna I got some of the Ivona voices to replace Anna. Now, the
situation is very different, but I will still use the voices I
purchased as well as the new Windows 8 voices. :D

Cheers!


On 5/4/13, Chris H christopher...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hey I wouldn't even use Ivona on Windows 8 as the voices shipped are
 superior in sound and quality.


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Re: [Audyssey] Games and Ivona

2013-05-04 Thread shaun everiss

no they are locked.
and you can only use 1 voice at one time anyway.

At 08:00 AM 5/5/2013, you wrote:

I was wondering, if you download the Ivona voices in Klango, are they
available to other applications? You can get them for free that way,
although every time I ever tried to download them it was painfully
slow, so I gave up. If I could use them as Sappi 5 voices, though, I
may try again.

On 5/4/13, Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Dan,

 Well, if you are willing to spend the money the Ivona voices work with
 Windows 7 64-bit and Windows 8 64-bit systems, and are about the
 closest you can get to human sounding voices. The voices from Cepstral
 also work with 64-bit Windows as well, but they are rather choppy and
 I've actually had issues installing them on some computers. So in my
 opinion the Ivona voices is a better deal.

 On 5/4/13, dan cook dan.sc...@gmail.com wrote:
 this is useful as I was just about to ask what voices you guys would
 recommend for a 64 bit system.



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