Hi, The Cepstral voices are not stable at all. Though they are listed as compatible, they crash a lot, and are extremely sluggish. I personally don't think they are that good or clear, but then, I am picky.
When it comes to AT&T, I have not yet purchased them. Though, just from what I can tell from samples and games utilizing this engine, not to mention trying them on the Windows side is that, while they sound clear, they seem to sound quite robotic. Their inflection goes all over the place. I'd recommend Infovox iVox from http://www.assistiveware.com They sound clear, and I have only heard them sound anywhere to just slightly robotic one time. They are extremely responsive, as if they were voices built into Mac OS X, such as Alex.. I, personally, still prefer Alex as my number one voice on the Mac for sure, but Peter from Infovox definitely is a close second. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Apr 11, 2010, at 6:44 PM, Slau Halatyn wrote: > Well, it's a bit unusual. You see, they don't actually sell the voices, per > se. They do, however, offer a software developers' toolkit for that price and > that includes all of the voices. I think there are something like 27 voices, > if I remember correctly. The idea is, if you were to develop software, the > voices could be packaged with the program as in the case with something like > Kurzweil 1000. Thing is, there's nothing to stop you from simply buying the > SDK, installing the voices on your system and never actually developing any > software. This was pointed out to me by aT&T themselves. Anyway, I haven't > really heard the voices but they're supposed to be pretty good. > > One thing to consider, though, is that, while they're OS X compatible, that > doesn't necessarily mean they'd work well with VoiceOver. It would be > interesting to find out but I don't think there's any trial version. > > On Apr 11, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Mary Otten wrote: > >> Wow! $300 for voices from AT&T> Has anybody heard them? How many are there >> for that price? Are they multiple languages? I've never seen reference to >> anything like that in hunting for voices. I'm always on the look out for >> quality voices inespecially in Russian. >> >> mary >> >> -- >> 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=en. >> > > -- > 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=en. > -- 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=en.
