I doubt ole alex is getting the elbow from apple. They have novelty voices and other stuff like fred that is still about from the 80s, so given the way they like to keep stuff alex has a long way to go before getting a divorce from apple. On 2011-03-02, at 12:11 PM, carolyn Haas wrote:
> Hi Mary: > I recently wrote to Apple Accessibility regarding voicing. I inquired about > the possibility of the Alex voice being made available for the iPad. The > response I got was encouraging in that Accessibility indicated they had > gotten a lot of good feedback about Alex, and they couldn't comment as to > whether he'd be brought over there. Nothing in their response seemed to > point toward his being retired, but instead, they , mentioned his > popularity.:) > > So, there's a bit of hope for us Alex fans. > > > > Carolyn > On Mar 2, 2011, at 9:46 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. > -- 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.
