Hi, I don't get the crashes at all. It's kind of snappy, but it has a slight delay and an interesting inflection. I'm using him right now. The quality could definitely be fixed, but I like how he pronounces most things..
If the quality could be fixed and stability greatly improved, I'd use him a lot more often. Also, do keep in mind that I was reviewing it by the way it works on my system. It's in no way conclusive. I did find it would occasionally stop my control key from working when switching to another voice, and when switching back, William would spout off a lot of numbers regarding amplitude and so-forth while I could hear William while navigating as well. So I would have two Williams. One reading off an array of numeric values, and the other reading my window. I have to quit VoiceOver to stop this and make my control key work as expected again. Also, interestingly enough, option-left arrow works differently now. Now, it reads the beginning of the line if you press the keystroke twice. That happens only when using William, as well. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Nov 17, 2009, at 5:31 PM, anouk radix wrote: > Hello, I did experience a lot of crashes with william especially when using > safari (that is voicover restarting) it was very annoying. > Greetings, Anouk > On Nov 17, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> No, I do not need his e-mail. >> >> It seems I lost what I wrote to reply after trying William, so I'll try >> again. >> >> Generally, William didn't actually crash anything. William was pretty >> snappy, just like the Infovox voices. However, when surfing with Safari and >> using other applications, I occasionally lost all speech though I could >> still hear the VoiceOver sounds. That seemed to be the biggest issue. Also, >> what is weird, is that at first, it kept switching back to Alex when >> switching to William in the Voice box in the VoiceOver Utility. It took a >> bit of patience and some effort to make it switch and actually keep using >> the voice. Also, worth noting is that apparently you cannot change to the >> William voice by choosing the speech attribute with VO-Right/Left and using >> VO-Up/Down to cycle between available voices. At least, I had no luck with >> that. >> >> The quality is not very good, and William can be difficult to understand. >> Even with the VoiceOver volume on one hundred percent, you still have to >> turn the Macintosh volume up quite a bit. It definitely doesn't sound very >> clear. I expected better quality. >> >> In short, I definitely do not think it's anywhere worth its current price. A >> lot of things could be improved, but that's to be expected, of course. >> >> Regards, >> Nic >> Skype: Kvalme >> MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk >> AIM: cincinster >> yahoo Messenger: cin368 >> Facebook Profile >> My Twitter >> >> On Nov 17, 2009, at 2:52 PM, hank smith wrote: >> >>> I sent the info in a email >>> did you need to know the guys email who gave me mine? >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: Nicolai Svendsen >>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 6:48 AM >>> Subject: Re: Cereproc Voices Again >>> >>> Hi again, >>> >>> After obtaining my coupon for William, I'm going to try him in a bit. As >>> for refunds, Cereproc generally does not provide any refunds unless a very >>> good reason is provided. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Nic >>> Skype: Kvalme >>> MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk >>> AIM: cincinster >>> yahoo Messenger: cin368 >>> Facebook Profile >>> My Twitter >>> >>> On Nov 17, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> That's exactly why I would like to try them before I buy. I don't care >>>> about the Demo Bar. That's not going to show me how usable they are, nor >>>> get them any feedback. But I'll let you know if they have one. I hope they >>>> do. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Nic >>>> Skype: Kvalme >>>> MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk >>>> AIM: cincinster >>>> yahoo Messenger: cin368 >>>> Facebook Profile >>>> My Twitter >>>> >>>> On Nov 17, 2009, at 10:43 AM, anouk radix wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello PLEASE if you find out about a refund policy let me know because I >>>>> sure want my money back. I did submit a bug report but did not get any >>>>> kind of reply while their voices are just plain unusable on the mac. >>>>> Greetings, Anouk >>>>> On Nov 17, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi guys, >>>>>> >>>>>> Sorry to bring this up continuously. >>>>>> >>>>>> I recall someone mentioning a coupon to obtain a trial for a Cereproc >>>>>> voice. I assume this is for the Mac? If so how did you get it? Cereproc >>>>>> themselves don't seem to be very helpful, and since the Demo bar is >>>>>> flash, apparently, I can't use it. Nor am I allowed to test it before >>>>>> buying, supposedly. I don't recall if they have a refund policy, but I >>>>>> hope they do. Either way, at least support doesn't sound very promising. >>>>>> But yes. I'm pretty sure I heard of someone having a coupon code for the >>>>>> Cereproc Sarah, at least. I did want to try William, but at least >>>>>> Cereproc seem to deny that there has ever been existing trials of any of >>>>>> their products. I'm doubting this a bit due to the mention of a code on >>>>>> the list. I'd persist and claim it does exist, but I don't want to be >>>>>> hated by Cereproc. :) >>>>>> >>>>>> Can anyone confirm if it only exists for Sarah or all their voices? it >>>>>> would seem a bit weird if it only exists for a single voice. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Nic >>>>>> Skype: Kvalme >>>>>> MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk >>>>>> AIM: cincinster >>>>>> yahoo Messenger: cin368 >>>>>> Facebook Profile >>>>>> My Twitter >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=. >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=. >>> >>> -- >>> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=. >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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