Thank you everyone for your assistance and especially to Michael for your clear detailed instructions. I discovered that I was listening to the Samantha and now I am going to try the Alex voice. Regards, Michelle Bernstein On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 1:58:31 PM UTC-5, Michael Feir wrote:
> You don't purchase Voiceover voices on iOS devices. All the available > ones are free. However, you need to do a little work to get a > selection of them. First, you need to go to settings, general, > accessibility, voiceover and speech. In the speech section, you can > choose your default voice. You may also add additional languages to > the rotor. For English-speaking voices, there's UK English, > Audstralian, US, Irish, and South African. For many of these, you can > choose one voice from a few options. The US choices include Alex and > Samantha as well as the SIRI male and female voices. there are at > times compact or enhanced versions of these voices. Alex is by far the > largest voice clocking in at most of a gigabyte. Choose what works > best for you. I have the Alex, male US and female UK and Australian > voices on the language setting of my rotor. Hope that helps. > > On 1/19/16, Edmonds, Lucy (LARA) <edmo...@michigan.gov <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Hello. I have another question about an iBook. Last week, there was an > iBook > > mentioned on this list called Mastering the Mac with Voiceover. I > searched > > for this, and can’t find it. Does anybody know if it is still available? > > Thanks. > > Lucy Edmonds > > > > From: vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> [mailto: > vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>] On Behalf > > Of Mary Otten > > Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 12:51 PM > > To: vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > > Subject: Re: I Books- Basic Questions > > > > Any voice that is on your Apple device that works as a voiceover voice > can > > be used with iBooks. That would include the nuance voices, and the Alex > > voice, which come with your device. I think you can also purchase voices > for > > the Mac to be used with voiceover from a company called sepstrel. I'm > > dictating this message, so that is probably spelled wrong, but I don't > know > > how to spell it. You can buy those voices, use them with voiceover, and > thus > > with iBooks on the Mac. But on an iPhone or iPad, you cannot use, for > > example, voices that you purchased to go along with voice dream reader, > as > > those voices do not work as voiceover voices. So the key is, if it works > as > > a voice over voice, you can use it. If not, you cannot use it. > > Mary > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > On Jan 19, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Michelle Bernstein > > <hamlets...@gmail.com <javascript:><mailto:hamlets...@gmail.com > <javascript:>>> wrote: > > I just started looking at the I Books app which I have never tried. It > > seems that you can read books either in audio format or by having > Voiceover > > read the text of a book, although each book may not offer both options. > > > > My question is what voice or voices can be used to listen to the text of > an > > i Book? Is it only the voice that comes with turning on Voiceover on > your > > Apple device? > > If you can purchase other voices, where do you go to purchase these > voices, > > how are they downloaded and how to you select another voice rather than > the > > Voiceover voice which comes with the Apple devices? Thanks for any > > guidance. 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