The problem with using Ivona voices is that they're only available in … yes you guessed it English, that's why i love the realspeak voices, they are actually available in my language, Swedish, which means that even i can go to a Mac anywhere, hit cmd+f5 and it comes up talking in my language. And i don't think the Realspeak voices are so bad, they certainly have less pronunciation issues, at least in Swedish than the highly aclaimed Acapella voices. /Krister 25 jul 2011 kl. 14:41 skrev James Malone:
> Alright alright, here's my rant/chat about Lion. I have my mixed > opinions on the OS as it were, and mainly Voiceover. I do to some > extent, feel that Apple didn't give as much thought to Voiceover, or > didn't focus more on important areas and major bugs and correcting > them. For someone like me, Item Chooser is a really big deal, as I > frequent lots of web pages with thousands of items. I really only > started to use the Mac the day SL came out, and I certainly don't > remember seeing this many issues. I've had some pretty major things > like VO refusing to go into menus, and sometimes even the dock. > Turning VO off then on again still didn't cut it. The only thing that > resolved the issue was to restart the OS itself. iTunes... Well, I'll > rest that one a bit, due to issues really starting to hit in 10.3. > mail: Well, for the most part its ok, and the viewing options can be > changed really, so that's a user descression thing, and something I > haven't played with enough to go striking that app down with opinions. > Safari in general: Again, not sure. I'm not sure if I really like the > downloads window on the toolbar, seeing as it seems to screw round > with Voiceover focus when I move it back to the page. However, that's > probably a bug that Apple overlooked. I do find it kind of irratating > that Apple feel the need to stress new Voices as a feature, when there > are other more broken things they could have spent time fixing, or at > least somewhat considering. There is no way that I'm expecting the > thing to be free of bugs, simply because that's just not the nature of > new stuff. Take for example, a new kind of chocolate. You don't know > how it will taste, so you are a bit unsure. You take a bight, and you > don't think you like it as much as the old brand. However, you stick > with it. After a certain time, you develop a fondness for it, and > leave the old one dead in its tracks. End conclusion is, give the OS > an update or two, then see how it goes. If much of this stuff is still > not addressed, then its time to get worryed. > P.S > I can't say I'm all that impressed either with the Scansoft voices, > especially the compact ones. What's the point of them anyway? I dunno > why Apple didn't just make a bunch of new Voices of their own, and > just leave that to iOS. Maybe its just me, but I think Realspeak is a > rather over-used synth in general, and sounds very over priced. If > Apple were to use something like Ivona instead, then I would be more > than happy. Once an update comes ouut, I might post back another > review. > Catcha later, > James > > On 7/25/11, Krister Ekstrom <kris...@kristersplace.com> wrote: >> >> 25 jul 2011 kl. 02:40 skrev matthew Dyer: >> >>> If you remember when 10.6 was released, 10.6.1 came out with in a week of >>> its first release. >>> >> And i have read in the Swedish Macworld, that 10.7.1 is due out within a few >> weeks. I'm not worried at all and i as i said before don't even begin to >> dream of downgrading back to SL, there's too many goodies in Lion i will >> miss should i downgrade. Now if only i could figure out how to open a folder >> i created in Launchpad… >> /Krister >> >> -- >> 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.
