really?
What reason did environment Canada give for that?
I would think keeping them for rural areas alone would make sense.
Karen
On Thu, 31 Dec 2020, 'Shawn Krasniuk' via MacVisionaries wrote:
I used to like the Tom voice when he was the voice found on your NOAA Weather
Radio stations in the States. At least he sounded more human. Nowadays he
sounds very boring to me. But like they always say, voices are subjective. By
the way, if I could go a little off topic here, we were supposed to get the Tom
and Ava voices for our weather radio here in Canada. Instead, I was surprised
to find out that all weather radio stations here are going off the air in
February or March. Oh well.
Regards,
Shawn,
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On Dec 30, 2020, at 7:49 PM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
Fred, wow I haven't used that one in a while. It was on my Mac in 1995 or at
least a variant of it with the same name.
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On Dec 30, 2020, at 13:56, 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
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Many of them are from Nuance. The "Fred" voice sounds somewhat similar to a
DECTALK, but not as good in my opinion.
On 12/29/20 9:29 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
I'm not sure about frequency, I believe tmost of these voices are the same as
what JAWS offers.
Karen, Samantha.
One thing with the Apple voice setting area, one can adjust both
pitch and intonation.
My understanding of intonation is how flat the voice will b.
HTH
Jonathan
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On Dec 29, 2020, at 14:43, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net
<mailto:klewel...@shellworld.net>> wrote:
Hi Shawn,
Thanks for that information.
My personal situation is that, due to experiencing a rather unique secondary
disability, I have yet to find a safe voice to use. One that does not at best
stimulate my brain's dizzy centres, or at worst create something a bit like a
Cesar.
My last try, in March, involved a siri voice on an Iphone, which made me
rather sick indeed.
for the moment Hardware, gosh I wish someone had saved the digital dectalk
voices, as I use a hardware decktalk voice now, seems safer than software
strict like Ios...believe me its complex even for my medical team.
What I hoped for from the list was frequency related information anything that
might hint at quality before I try.
I would not be using a strict 64 bit edition of Macos regardless for other
reasons. Still, I imagine there are at least 20 or more options just in the
regular non-siri voices.
Thanks,
Karen
On Tue, 29 Dec 2020, 'Shawn Krasniuk' via MacVisionaries wrote:
Hi Karen. Some voices on the Mac are used for novelty purposes. Bells basically
talks, or in this case, sings like a grandfather clock. There are other novelty
voices that I'm not going to get indepth about because it'll take all night to
do so. But I can tell you one voice I'm glad they finally let us use on the
Mac. We can now use Siri voices. They added those voices in Catalina and they
can be used in Big Sur as well.
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On Dec 28, 2020, at 10:49 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net
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What defines a voice as useless?
I suppose a voice named bells, is just a ringer not a talker?
Are the voices say for English first in the order, or must one go down the
list finding non-English speaking voices mixed into the options? Clarity is
an absolute requirement, and I mean strictly on the mac.
Thanks so much,
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote:
Well, I believe they???re only 40 English voice says, and of those at least 10
or totally useless. Generally they???re marked them as different genders and
sometimes is a compact and a non-compact version. One example of a totally
useless one, is the bells voice that was around since macOS eight or possibly
seven.
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On Dec 28, 2020, at 5:03 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net
<mailto:klewel...@shellworld.net>> wrote:
??? Jonathan,
Do you know if any details about each voice is provided..anywhere?
Its characteristics, frequency ranges, etc.?
Surely there must be some reason that makes each voice distinctive from each
other besides the name.
That such a number exists is honestly astonishing.
Karen
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
There are approximately, 285 voices that are available as downloads from Apple. If you
pick the name of the Voice in the Speech category of VoiceOver utility, and go to the
last item in the pop-up list this will be "customize".
Pressing this brings up a dialog with a table of voices. Each voice has a
checkbox next to it to determine if if it will be enabled for use in VoiceOver.
After the list of voices is a play, cancel, and a OK button. The Play button
lets you hear a sample of the selected voice. The OK button accepts any changes
and requests System Utility to download the new voices the next time it checks
for updates.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
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I like Alex, and sort of like Daniel sometimes, but are there additional voices
for purchase or free? Just wondering. I like Fred's voice, but he doesn't speak
clearly. haha.
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