Hi Mary, I highly doubt Apple will retire Alex. They invested a great deal of time and money into producing a high quality voice. It would seem wasted to remove it now. Best, Zack. On Mar 2, 2011, at 8:46 AM, Mary Otten wrote:
> According to the article found at > http://www.tuaw.com/ > Mac OS 10 offers high quality multi-lingual voices, > There are going to be a whole lot of high quality voices, in a variety of > languages, available for download in the next iteration of Apple's os. For > me, the one possible sour note was the reference to Samantha and Tom as an > improvement over Alex that we have now. I hope this will not mean that Apple > will decide to retire Alex in favor of what are, for me at least, vastly > inferior voices in Samantha and Tom. There will be other English voices, the > ones we know on the IPhone. Indeed, it sounds like the voices that are coming > to Lion are those we now have on the I-devices. Great for speakers of > languages other than English. Great for folks who prefer a non-U.S. English > reading voice. But a definite leap backwards if they can Alex in favor of > what's on the IPhone now, even if they include the male voice. > > Mary > > Mary Otten > motte...@gmail.com > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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.
