I use Alex at 70% on iOS and OS X, and have rarely noticed a problem. Put another way, Alex has no more pronunciation oddities, to my ear, than do other popular voices. Often, he's easier to understand, and he seems to try less auto-expansion tricks than do Nuance voices, which is nice. He also does that cool thing with words surrounded by single quotes… Anyway, I'm just saying I haven't seen any problems with his speech, at least not that I've noticed. > On Dec 10, 2015, at 18:35, Nicolai Svendsen <chojiro1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi! > > I'd also be very curious for a more specific example (a sentence where this > occurs.) > > I do notice that sometimes, Alex does swallow words and almost mashes them > together with others, making it hard to hear parts of the word, but Apple is > usually good about addressing this. This happens so rarely and I have not > seen this since OS X 10.11.2, even at speech rate at 100%. > > Nicolai >> On Dec 10, 2015, at 6:13 PM, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> Hi. I don't notice any pronunciation issues with Alex. Just out of >> curiosity, what's the rate of your speech? I keep all my voices at a 35% >> speech rate because they sound the most natural with that rate. Any higher >> is unnatural. >> >> Shawn >> Sent From My White MacBook >> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk >> Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs >> Skype username: bbstheblindrapper >> Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com >> >>> On Dec 10, 2015, at 11:26 AM, Craig Werner <coffeeb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello,everyone. >>> >>> As we all know, preference for one voice over another is a matter of >>> subjective interpretation. However, it strikes me that one criterion >>> is less subjective than the others: the ability of a synthesizer to >>> pronounce a word correctly in the dialect and language the user has >>> chosen. In this respect, it seems to me, Alex doesn't perform well. >>> I have noticed that even common words are too often mispronounced, >>> and, in Yosemite 10.10.5, at least, it is the short ones, such as >>> "to," "the," "into," "that," etc. that are often mispronounced or have >>> portions of them swallowed up. Whether these words are correctly >>> pronounced may depend on their position on a line and their >>> contiguity, or lack of it, with punctuation marks. >>> >>> I'm wondering about two questions. First, is Alex's pronunciation >>> more correct under OS 10.11 than under 10.10? Second, are there other >>> voices that pronounce common words more accurately? >>> >>> Thanks for all help. >>> >>> Craig >>> >>> -- >>> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >>> Visionaries list. >>> >>> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >>> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners >>> or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >>> >>> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara >>> Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com >>> >>> The archives for this list can be searched at: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara >> Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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