Hi Chris, I agree about Compact Daniel; he sounds rather like the high-quality Nokia voice I had on the E7. The Australian and US voices aren't too bad, and I'm sure their HQ voices would sound fine.
Cheers, Mike -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris H Sent: 20 September 2013 19:25 To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Explanation to all of you who are confused about the iOS 7 TTS voices Thank you for sharing. I absolutely cannot stand the compact British English voice. Sounds like Daniel with well I don't know, cinucitis maybe! Lol! But the one compact voice I do like is Irish English. Not really tried the Australian and U.S. English voices yet in compact mode. On 20/09/2013 00:22, Adi Kushnir wrote: > Hi all, > > As one who uses the new Nuance Vocalizer Expressive voices to develop > with them for other platforms, I wanna to explain to you all, what are > the iOS 7 voices and which of them are being used when. > > So, let's start from sirie: > > The new and better Sirie voices are not Vocalizer Expressive voices. > > These are custom voices that Nuance or some other company makes a > specially for Apple, I think it's Nuance because Apple always works > with them on TTS related stuff. > > > > Now, let's move on to VoiceOver: > > In iOS 6, Apple used the Nuance Vocalizer for automotive version 5.5 > platform for it's screen reader and Sirie. > > Since Nuance stopped supporting and developing Vocalizer for > Automotive, and released Vocalizer Expressive, in iOS 7, Apple has > swiched to using these voices for VoiceOver. > > Most of them sound the same as the previous generation of Vocalizer, > such as Samantha Premium for example, they just read longer texts better. > > The Vocalizer Expressive platform contains some new and very > expressive voices, but Apple decided to use the ones that wer already > available, because they are still offerd with Vocalizer Expressive, or VE for short. > > Some other facts that thanks to them you can know it's the new > Expressive version, are the bad compact voices, a specially Daniel, > and the new voices for some languages such as Arabic, they have > replaced Maged with Tarik for this language because Nuance doesn't offer Maged any more. > > Vocalizer Expressive has a Hebrew voice as well, so I hope Apple will > add it soon too:) (Smile). > > > > Hope now you understand it better.. > > > > Adi. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
