Re: Japanese voice for the Mac [was Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement]

2009-11-08 Thread James & Nash
for the Mac [was Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement] > > Hi James, > > No, like i said on an earlier post, seraprok doesn't allow downloading > the japanese voice. it is there strictly for demo purposes, and one of > theor representatives told me they could

Re: Japanese voice for the Mac [was Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement]

2009-11-08 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi James, No, like i said on an earlier post, seraprok doesn't allow downloading the japanese voice. it is there strictly for demo purposes, and one of theor representatives told me they couldnt release the japanese one as it is tied by proprietary licenses which they havent shelled out. th

Re: Japanese voice for the Mac [was Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement]

2009-11-08 Thread James & Nash
Yuma, You can also get a Japanese voice from www.cereproc.com Take care James - Original Message - From: "Yuma Antoine Decaux" To: Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 9:17 AM Subject: Re: Japanese voice for the Mac [was Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvemen

Re: Japanese voice for the Mac [was Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement]

2009-11-08 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
I believe the voices only without the engine (meaning SDK inclusive) costs 4700 Yen, approximately 50 USD for two voices, male and female. Sounds good, but i really wonder about their quality. I'm tempted to get the full version with SDK to include some hq voices in it via our dubbing statio

Re: Japanese voice for the Mac [was Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement]

2009-11-07 Thread Esther
Hi Yuma, I think I gave the link to DTalker in this post from a month ago: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg11264.html (Re: japanese local settings keyboard and voice over) but maybe it wasn't clear that the voices were separately available, since I described t

Re: Japanese voice for the Mac [was Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement]

2009-11-07 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi ester, Thanks for that bit of info. Actually, i don't think you did mention it otherwise i would have visited the link right away. I will wait for the SL compatible version to come out before purchasing it, but finally i will be able to navigate through japanese sites, which is great fo

Japanese voice for the Mac [was Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement]

2009-11-07 Thread Esther
Hi Yuma, I'm pretty sure I answered this before. There is a Japanese voice for the Mac that you can get from the DTalker web site: http://www.createsystem.co.jp/dtalkerMacOSX.html In order to read this with VoiceOver, you're going to have to run the page through Google Translate. Although

Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement

2009-11-07 Thread Esther
Hi Donna, This bit of information about the speaking rate actually came from another list member who wrote to the accessibility team at Apple. She posted the reply to the list: Hi Jane: Check out this site for information on how to embed commands into the text to speed it up or change ot

Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement

2009-11-07 Thread Donna Goodin
Wow, Esther, that's amazing! Is there anything about the Mac that you don't know? Best, Donna :) On Nov 7, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Anouk, > > Yes, you can make yourself an Automator workflow to convert any text > documents to mp3 files on the Mac. The only tricky thing about >

Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement

2009-11-07 Thread Esther
Hi Anouk, Yes, you can make yourself an Automator workflow to convert any text documents to mp3 files on the Mac. The only tricky thing about using regular text to speech to translate the documents is getting the voice to speak at a faster rate. You can control this by putting a sequence

Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement

2009-11-07 Thread Donna Goodin
Oh, now that's cool! I don't have Visiovoice, so that's something I might actually do. Cool that you have a website for French VOusers. I can see why you would want to keep up with things that [pertain to that. Best, Donna On Nov 7, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Donna, > >

Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement

2009-11-07 Thread anouk radix
Hi Esther, What I think would be nice about ghostreader is that you can for example translate books in text or pdf or html format into mp3 audio files using the voice you like, i am not sure if you can do this on the mac natively. Greetings, Anouk On Nov 7, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Esther wrote: >

Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement

2009-11-07 Thread Esther
Hi Anouk, Visiovoice is designed for visually impaired individuals. It was an alternative solution that would work out of the box if you wanted to run your Mac using French or Dutch voices in Tiger, where starting up with VoiceOver required knowledge of English. Visiovoice has a separate

Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement

2009-11-07 Thread anouk radix
Hi Anne, What is the difference between visiovoice and ghostreader? Greetings, Anouk On Nov 7, 2009, at 4:51 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Donna, > > On Nov 6, 2009, at 7:25 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: >> >> So what do you use Ghost-reader for? I just can't seem to get excited >> about it. > > I u

Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement

2009-11-07 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Donna, On Nov 6, 2009, at 7:25 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > So what do you use Ghost-reader for? I just can't seem to get excited > about it. I use it for converting text files such as scanned books into audio files. I wouldn't actually have bought it since I already have VisioVoice exce

Re: Infovox marked improvement

2009-11-07 Thread Pete Nalda
for the Mac. Those >>>>>> of >>>>>> us >>>>>> who use the Mac in a language other than English need these >>>>>> voices >>>>>> since Apple only provides English language voices. >>>>>> >>

Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement

2009-11-07 Thread Donna Goodin
cellent at >> least on a >> par with InfoVox at least in my humble opinion. >> >> Just my two cents worth >> TC >> >> James >> >> - Original Message - >> From: "Esther" >> To: >> Sent: Friday, November 06, 20

Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement

2009-11-07 Thread anouk radix
Hey, i did not know you could download a demo, i thought you could only listen to a small sample and buy the voice you want. Greetings, Anouk On Nov 7, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > > Hi All, > > I've downloaded a voice from seraproc. scottish heather for gigges, > and though

Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement

2009-11-07 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi All, I've downloaded a voice from seraproc. scottish heather for gigges, and though it is not as expensive as infovox, the voice isn't as high quality, and there are a lot of pronouciation errors. Or perhaps its because scottish is harder to understand. At any rate, you can't download o

Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement

2009-11-07 Thread anouk radix
ge - > From: "Esther" > To: > Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 3:34 PM > Subject: Re: Infovox marked improvement > > > > Hi Donna, > > It's actually cheaper to buy a second Infovox iVox language pack. I > think an add-on, non-Scandinavian language

Re: Other voice synths Re: Infovox marked improvement

2009-11-07 Thread anouk radix
rote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Anne, >>>>>> >>>>>> You mention that for $99 you get five voices? I didn't realize >>>>>> that. >>>>>> Do all five have to be in the same language, i.e

Re: Infovox marked improvement

2009-11-07 Thread anouk radix
;>> Cheers, >>> >>> Anne >>> >>> On Nov 6, 2009, at 7:34 AM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> What is Info Vox? >>>> >>>> -Original Message- >>>> From: macvisionaries@googlegr

Re: Infovox marked improvement

2009-11-06 Thread Anne Robertson
34 AM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: > > What is Info Vox? > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nicolai Svendsen > Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 3:27 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

RE: Infovox marked improvement

2009-11-05 Thread Kevin Gibbs
What is Info Vox? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nicolai Svendsen Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 3:27 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Infovox marked improvement Hi, It's defin

Re: Infovox marked improvement

2009-11-05 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, It's definitely become much more responsive as well. I got it as soon as it was in beta, and even by that point the responsiveness was excellent. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Nov