wish they would ahve mac compatible voices. On 24 Apr 2010, at 15:29, Esther wrote:
> Hello Will, > > It would certainly be good news if there were a Mandarin Chinese voice added > to the Infovox iVox voices from Acapela, since their voices are very well > tested for use with VoiceOver. However, unless you have more direct > information from them than has appeared in the exchanges on this list, and > beyond the replies that David Niemeijer (CEO of Assistiveware) posted to your > suggestion that they add such voices, it would probably be better not to > speculate. > > There's a Mandarin voice sample on the Loquendo voice demo page: > http://www.loquendo.com/en/demos/demo_emb_tts.htm > > As far as I know, none of the Loquendo voices have been developed for use > with VoiceOver on the Mac (so that they follow the speech control API's that > allow the voices to work integrally with the Mac OS X). Some developers are > using those voices for text to speech on the iPhone and iPad. > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Esther > william lomas wrote: > >> i think acapella are doing a manderin voice >> >> On 24 Apr 2010, at 14:14, Esther wrote: >> >>> Hi Shen, >>> >>> I'd like to know if there are Mandarin voices to use with VoiceOver, too. >>> There are Japanese voices that worked with VoiceOver under Leopard from >>> DTalker, but I don't know if they've been updated yet for Snow Leopard. >>> Here's the link to my post to Yuma on this subject from the archives: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg12502.html >>> (Japanese voice for the Mac) >>> There are some language learning programs that include voices for text to >>> speech, such as the Key2009 software: >>> http://www.cjkware.com/index.html >>> I haven't tried these, so I don't know whether they're accessible, but the >>> voices only do text to speech within the application program. >>> >>> The iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad have Mandarin and Japanese voices with >>> VoiceOver on their version of the operating system (OS 3.1.2 or OS 3.2). >>> However, switching voices is inconvenient. The iPad (OS 3.2) has >>> introduced a language rotor, which simplifies this. The iPad is currently >>> the Mac platform that would best support Mandarin, although the iPhone >>> operating system and applications are more limited in capabilities than Mac >>> OS X on the regular Macs. >>> >>> HTH >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Esther >>> >>> >>> Shen wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> Does anyone know where I can get Japanese and Mandarin voices to use >>>> with VoiceOver. >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Shen >>>> goalb...@gmail.com >>>> > > -- > 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. > william lomas follow me on twitter: billbow_baggins -- 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.
