I found a female voice once that sounded like a hot Asian girl but I haven't been able to find it again since.
I'm with you though, more voice plugins would be great. Alex is good though for stock! On Oct 16, 2010, at 9:10 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > Hi, Alex is really new, and the other voices that come with mac are really > legacy. I suspect breathing wasn't even a consideration when the older > voices were being developed. I've got alex running so fast here, that I > never even notice him breathing. > > As far as Samantha, she is just about the snottiest manliest woman I have > ever heard. If she came up to me and said, "can I help you sir?", I'd be > tempted to punch her in the nose. She sounds like she smokes way too much. > Aside from just generally not liking her attitude, I find all the nuance > voices a bit choppy, and I find they don't distinguish properly between b's > p's and V's, or d's and T's, or S's and F's. Tom's especially bad for that. > I don't know how most people stand him. Karen at least has a nice sounding > voice tone, and I can live with the fact that she's australian. > > The acapela voices are absolutely great. They have amazing tone and > inflection, they are nearly as smooth as alex. They just sound fantasttic. > It would be nice to date heather just once. You know, I really should get > out more if this is how I'm thinking about my computer. > > Have fun, > > Erik Burggraaf > User support consultant, > One on one access technology support and training over the phone or in person, > 1-888-255-5194 > http://www.erik-burggraaf.com > > On 2010-10-16, at 11:30 AM, Carolyn Haas wrote: > >> Eric: >> On the subject of voiceover voicing, how come they only give breathing >> capability to Alex? Also, I wonder why the other voices they have seem so >> weak by comparison? Finally, in defense of Samaantha, I like her voice. it >> seems to me to be the strongest option besides Alex; at least on the iPhone. >> On the mac, if she's there under another name, she's not as strong. As a >> hearing impaired person, I've found the voicing on the iPad the easiest of >> all of the Apple voices to understand. But, that's just me. >> I'm interested in other people's thoughts on this. >> >> Thanks >> >> Carolyn Haas >> chaas0...@gmail.com >> >> >> >> On Oct 16, 2010, at 6:33 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: >> >>> I'd like to see better html5 support. It's working more or less, but it >>> could be better. Improved calendar and garage band accessibility. and a >>> female voice just so as I could change it up once in a while. If they >>> outsource voices from nuance I'm going to scream. There's no reason to buy >>> aweful when we have acapela which is far better. If they would licence >>> acapela I'd be right there, but please please please save me from samantha. >>> >>> Grade two braille input is a must. I also want the magnification to go up >>> to 10 times without pixalating. The magnification stuff has got to improve >>> to a point where it's on a par with the rest of voiceover. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Erik Burggraaf >>> User support consultant, >>> One on one access technology support and training over the phone or in >>> person, >>> 1-888-255-5194 >>> http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >>> >>> On 2010-10-15, at 1:43 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> I would really love to see other voices in other languages and that they >>>> ditched those trinoids, good news, bad news, boing and other nonsence >>>> voices that belonged in the days when they didn't really know what to do >>>> with synthetic speech, because they hadn't a screen reader then. Nowadays, >>>> there is Voiceover so then other voices in other languages are more >>>> appropriate, especially since the screen reader itself is actually >>>> localized into other languages than english. >>>> Other than that, i would love to see a better translation to Swedish of >>>> Voiceover and the feature that the old Outspoken had, namely theability to >>>> know where the cursor was, by hearing a beep when you spell a word, so >>>> that if you had the word "browser" for example and you are in the middle >>>> of the word, just between the "w" and "s", you could hear "b r o w beep s >>>> e r" and if you then went one step to the right with the cursor, it'd go >>>> "b r o w s beep e r" and so on. >>>> Permanent hot spots savable on a per application basis would also be nice. >>>> And i totally agree with more accessibility of the ILife suite would be >>>> wonderful. >>>> /Krister >>>> >>>> 15 okt 2010 kl. 19.25 skrev Daniel Rowe: >>>> >>>>> Hi all. >>>>> >>>>> As you might be aware, apple are holding a "Back To The Mac" event next >>>>> Wednesday at 10 eastern in Cupertino, California. There are rumours of >>>>> possible upgrades to the MacBook Air and also the unveiling of MAC OS X >>>>> 10.7. >>>>> So, what would you like to see included in next version of the OS, >>>>> either generally or VoiceOver specific? >>>>> >>>>> Personally, I'd like to see a female voice that is as good as Alex, and >>>>> to have voices in other languages even if it meant licensing them from >>>>> nuance as they have done in iOS. >>>>> Accessibility improvements to garage band would be welcome, as well as >>>>> making iWeb accessible. >>>>> The last major thing I can think of is to finally fix the issue of VO >>>>> randomly resetting itself. >>>>> >>>>> I'm sure they'll come up with a load of things I haven't even thought of. >>>>> So what do you all think? >>>>> >>>>> Dannie >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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. >>> >> >> -- >> 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. 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