Extra voices in dock an menu?

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getting extra voices for foreign languages

[Mary Otten]

I thought I had downloaded the Russian voice for this Mac mini running ML, but 
I have not, and I can't remember where to go to do that. Can somebody clue me 
in? I checked voice over utility and didn't see anything there. I will probably 
upgrade to Mavericks in the near future, but just now, I'd love to be able to 
access cyrillic on this machine, which I use to do under snow leopard with the 
infovox Russian voice. But that died when I got the new Mini with ML. Help, 
please.

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Re: getting extra voices for foreign languages

[Thierry Renoux]

Hello,

open voiceover utility, go to speech, voSpace on default  and go to customize. 
There, you will find the Russian voices.

Hope this helps,
Thierry

On Mar 10, 2014, at 8:45 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote:

 I thought I had downloaded the Russian voice for this Mac mini running ML, 
 but I have not, and I can't remember where to go to do that. Can somebody 
 clue me in? I checked voice over utility and didn't see anything there. I 
 will probably upgrade to Mavericks in the near future, but just now, I'd love 
 to be able to access cyrillic on this machine, which I use to do under snow 
 leopard with the infovox Russian voice. But that died when I got the new Mini 
 with ML. Help, please.
 
 Mary
 Mary Otten
 motte...@gmail.com
 
 
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Re: getting extra voices for foreign languages

[Mary Otten]

Thanks. I was missing a step, to get the custom choice.

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extra voices

[chad baker]

Hi where can i get extra voices?
Is there any trials out there or no?
Not sure if cepstral has demos that's the only one i know of.
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Re: extra voices

[william lomas]

yu can get infovox
www.assitiveware.com

On 11 Apr 2010, at 11:58, chad baker wrote:

 Hi where can i get extra voices?
 Is there any trials out there or no?
 Not sure if cepstral has demos that's the only one i know of.
 thanks
 
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Re: extra voices

[Slau Halatyn]

InfoVox would probably be the best choice. I like the Cepstral voices as well 
but they appear not to work too well with VoiceOver, at least for me. From what 
I understand, ATT has a package of voices that are supposed to be quite good 
but they're well over $300. Go with InfoVox. They have a 30-day trial period 
although mine seemed to last only 2 weeks before I started getting an incessant 
reminder that the trial period was going to expire or something to that effect. 
At any rate, the 2 weeks was more than enough time to convince me that the 
voices sounded great and worked well with VoiceOver.

On Apr 11, 2010, at 6:58 AM, chad baker wrote:

 Hi where can i get extra voices?
 Is there any trials out there or no?
 Not sure if cepstral has demos that's the only one i know of.
 thanks
 
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Re: extra voices

[Mary Otten]

Wow! $300 for voices from ATT Has anybody heard them? How many are there for 
that price? Are they multiple languages? I've never seen reference to anything 
like that in hunting for voices. I'm always on the look out for quality voices 
inespecially in  Russian. 

mary

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Re: extra voices

[Slau Halatyn]

Well, it's a bit unusual. You see, they don't actually sell the voices, per se. 
They do, however, offer a software developers' toolkit for that price and that 
includes all of the voices. I think there are something like 27 voices, if I 
remember correctly. The idea is, if you were to develop software, the voices 
could be packaged with the program as in the case with something like Kurzweil 
1000. Thing is, there's nothing to stop you from simply buying the SDK, 
installing the voices on your system and never actually developing any 
software. This was pointed out to me by aTT themselves. Anyway, I haven't 
really heard the voices but they're supposed to be pretty good.

One thing to consider, though, is that, while they're OS X compatible, that 
doesn't necessarily mean they'd work well with VoiceOver. It would be 
interesting to find out but I don't think there's any trial version.

On Apr 11, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Mary Otten wrote:

 Wow! $300 for voices from ATT Has anybody heard them? How many are there 
 for that price? Are they multiple languages? I've never seen reference to 
 anything like that in hunting for voices. I'm always on the look out for 
 quality voices inespecially in  Russian. 
 
 mary
 
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Re: extra voices

[Nicolai Svendsen]

Hi,

The Cepstral voices are not stable at all. Though they are listed as 
compatible, they crash a lot, and are extremely sluggish. I personally don't 
think they are that good or clear, but then, I am picky.

When it comes to ATT, I have not yet purchased them. Though, just from what I 
can tell from samples and games utilizing this engine, not to mention trying 
them on the Windows side is that, while they sound clear, they seem to sound 
quite robotic. Their inflection goes all over the place.

I'd recommend Infovox iVox from http://www.assistiveware.com
They sound clear, and I have only heard them sound anywhere to just slightly 
robotic one time. They are extremely responsive, as if they were voices built 
into Mac OS X, such as Alex..

I, personally, still prefer Alex as my number one voice on the Mac for sure, 
but Peter from Infovox definitely is a close second.

Regards,
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On Apr 11, 2010, at 6:44 PM, Slau Halatyn wrote:

 Well, it's a bit unusual. You see, they don't actually sell the voices, per 
 se. They do, however, offer a software developers' toolkit for that price and 
 that includes all of the voices. I think there are something like 27 voices, 
 if I remember correctly. The idea is, if you were to develop software, the 
 voices could be packaged with the program as in the case with something like 
 Kurzweil 1000. Thing is, there's nothing to stop you from simply buying the 
 SDK, installing the voices on your system and never actually developing any 
 software. This was pointed out to me by aTT themselves. Anyway, I haven't 
 really heard the voices but they're supposed to be pretty good.
 
 One thing to consider, though, is that, while they're OS X compatible, that 
 doesn't necessarily mean they'd work well with VoiceOver. It would be 
 interesting to find out but I don't think there's any trial version.
 
 On Apr 11, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Mary Otten wrote:
 
 Wow! $300 for voices from ATT Has anybody heard them? How many are there 
 for that price? Are they multiple languages? I've never seen reference to 
 anything like that in hunting for voices. I'm always on the look out for 
 quality voices inespecially in  Russian. 
 
 mary
 
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Re: extra voices

[Mary Otten]

Thanks for the clarification about the ATT voices. too rich for my bloodd, as 
they say. But it'd be cool if those voices could be made available separate 
from the sdk somehow, to work with VO and offer an alternative to the Infovox 
ones.

mary

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Re: extra voices

[Slau Halatyn]

Yep, as I said earlier, the InfoVox voices are probably the best bet.

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Re: extra voices

[Esther]

Hi Mary,

I have the Alyona Russian voice from Infovox on my Mac.  You can try  
out this voice, and other languages at the Assistiveware voice samples  
page:

http://www.assistiveware.com/ivoxsamples.php

The actual purchasing process is a little complicated, since in the  
U.S., and for North and South America in general, I think, the agent  
is Origin Instruments in Texas, and you're directed to their web  
pages. They sell all the voices and bundles that Assistiveware offers,  
but they only list a few of these.  In fact, Russian only got added to  
the menu after I purchased the voice from them when it first came out.


The other thing is that the bundles get progressively cheaper as you  
buy more voices, even when you don't buy them all at once but just as  
add-ons, and there are options like household licenses that allow you  
to use the voices you purchase on multiple computers, too.


Here's a link to an archived post that outlines some of this:
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg05312.html
(Summary Information on Heather and other Infovox voice purchase  
options from U.S.)


There are also discussions more recently that you can find in the  
Archives -- most notably some post exchanges from the Fall when Donna  
was asking about buying voices.


The ATT SDK has been around for ages -- like nearly as long as this  
list has been in existence.  I'm surprised there isn't something else  
commercially available, but I haven't seen it.  The Cepstral voices  
had the same problems of making VoiceOver unstable when they were  
first introduced (way back in Tiger).  They generally fix this, but  
they're unstable again under Snow Leopard.  The other voices I've  
tried are by Cereproc in the U.K.  I liked the accents (Scottish  
voices with accents from the Edinburgh end of the country), but they  
made my VoiceOver crash.  Even weirder, when I tried using the say  
command to script time, etc. in Terminal, they'd fill the Terminal   
windows with weird characters.


HTH

Cheers,

Esther

 Mary Otten wrote:

Wow! $300 for voices from ATT Has anybody heard them? How many are  
there for that price? Are they multiple languages? I've never seen  
reference to anything like that in hunting for voices. I'm always on  
the look out for quality voices inespecially in  Russian.


mary



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Re: extra voices

[Claudio Haase]

Hi listers, someone try voices from loquendo?


On 4/11/10, Slau Halatyn slauhala...@gmail.com wrote:
 Yep, as I said earlier, the InfoVox voices are probably the best bet.

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Re: extra voices

[Mary Otten]

Hi Esther,
Yes, I bought the Aliona russian voice just after I bought my Mac. I'd like a 
male voice. I've heard one from another company, I think its a capella but it 
might be Loquendo, I can't remember, that is the best one I've ever heard, but 
its not available for use on a mac or with a Windows screen reader either. The 
Aliona voice is pretty good, certainly better than what I've used in the past. 

Mary

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