No no, I completely agree. I stick with alex all of the time, seeing that there's a bug with the voices anyway when you're reading large blocks of text. It'll just randomly start sounding like a chipmunk.
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Howell Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 12:36 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Deleting voices Obviously, but I would hope that folks wouldn't download all the possible voices unless they speak all the various languages. To tell you the truth I do not find most the other voices to be of any real improvement over Alex or Vicki. On May 3, 2012, at 1:32 PM, Daniel Miller wrote: Actually, it would. If you downloaded a lot of them. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Howell Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 12:31 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Deleting voices Of course realize that deleting these voices has no impact on performance and would not give you back any significant amount of space generally. On May 3, 2012, at 6:11 AM, Daniel Miller wrote: Hi, Yes, there is a way you can remove the voices. I'm going to paste in instructions. Using Finders great "Go to Folder" feature of Command+Shift+G enter the following path: /System/Library/Speech/Voices/ You'll see a list of voices, but notice they come in two formats: Voice and VoiceCompact, you can keep VoiceCompact because those are just the short samples, it's the Voice.SpeechVoice you want to delete to remove the full voice. For a quick example we'll get rid of Samantha - sorry Samantha, you sound lovely but you take up too much space - so we will be deleting Samantha.SpeechVoice. Select that folder and either drag it to the Trash or hit Command+Delete to place it there automatically. Because the voice files are contained in /System/ you will need to authenticate with the <http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/29/delete-voices-mac-os-x-lion/> administrator password in order to delete the file, so type that in, then you can empty the Trash. No more Samantha! I hope this helps! From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Krysti .Power Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 5:08 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Deleting voices Id like to know this as well On 2012-05-03 7:05 AM, "Lisette wesseling" <lisettewessel...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Is it possible to delete the many compact voices one doesn't use? Do these compact voices slow the Mac computers down at all? I have downloaded a few of the premium ones but really can't see a use for most of the pre installed voices. I suspect the answer will be no but thought it worth asking. Thanks to all for help on mailbox issues. All sorted now. Lisette -- 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 <mailto:macvisionaries%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> . 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