Hi there! So, if I might ask, how you guys dealing with this problem in the windows world? I mean, if you were using Jaws, how do they use the voices differently so to make sense for you there? Hm, I think I am getting a little off topic here. Sorry.
Nektarios. On Jul 28, 2012, at 8:36 PM, Johanna Herranen <johannamaria.herra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I'm glad things are working for you guys. Apple rocks indeed, but I have to > say, we finns weren't so lucky. New Finnish Mikko voice is now made in such a > way, that it tries to read English correctly. Finnish and English have very > different phonetics, and so this causes some conflicts in Finnish then. Also, > if someone is depending on speech only, in some cases there is absolutely no > way to know what actually is on the screen. There are conflicts like: word > join. To join in English, but that actually is a Finnish word also. It is > indeed very very annoying if a Finnish synth tries to detect English words > and pronounce them the correct Enblish way -- especially if the word in > question was meant to be a Finnish word and mean to be pronounced > differently. Yes, I know there is a way to tell VoiceOver how to pronounce > things, but this is a huge issue, and just making a customized dictionary > won't fix it. > > Also, there still are issues with the Finnish braille table. The best > solution at the moment is just to use the Swedish table. There at least most > of the things are the same as in correct Finnish table. > I found a workaround to get back my older Nuance voice, otherwise I would > now be pulling my hair out. I really hope all these language issues will get > fixed at some point -- the sooner, the better. > > Johanna > On Jul 28, 2012, at 8:15 PM, Nektarios Mallas <nmal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello. >> Most of what you said is also true for The Greek language. Voice over now >> speaks like a native Greek speaker, smile!!! >> They also gave a new excellent female Greek voice. >> They also corrected some Braille issues with the language. >> Apple rocks!!! >> Nektarios. >> >> On Jul 28, 2012, at 5:22 PM, Krister Ekstrom <kris...@kristersplace.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> All the speech bugs that i wanted to be fixed in the Swedish >>> Nuance/Realspeak voices are indeed fixed. The Swedish Oskar voice no longer >>> clashes with the system voice making the system voice go silent. The >>> strange announcing of characters when typing with typing echo set to >>> characters are gone and so is the pitch bug, where the Realspeak voice >>> suddenly would go either up or down in pitch for no apparent reason. Beware >>> though that after installation of Mountain lion you have to go to "program >>> update" and choose to update everything, and then you will get the voices >>> you want. >>> I'm surpriced dictation isn't available in Dutch, since it's one of the >>> "big" languages. What doesn't surprice me in the least though is that the >>> dictation feature isn't available in Swedish, and probably never will be. >>> /Krister >>> >>> 25 jul 2012 kl. 22:12 skrev William Windels <william.wind...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> I haven't still 10.8 because the update program of apple has problems but, >>>> I can already write some toughts because of things I have heard of others: >>>> >>>> For non-English users, 10.8 seems not so powerful and complete. >>>> I have heard that the speech bug for the nuance voices isn't fixed since >>>> the introduction a year ago ;) >>>> my address, william.wind...@gmail.com is spoken as willia.m@gmai.l >>>> >>>> If this is really true, is this a joke that they don't fix this after a >>>> year? >>>> >>>> Also, the dictation function that is introduced in 10.8 covers only a few >>>> languages and no dutch at the moment. I am courious when they will update >>>> their languages. >>>> >>>> I'll not completely negative about the new version until I have tested >>>> myself for a while but I'll always critical about new versions since they >>>> fix bugs very slow sometimes. >>>> >>>> Any comments are appreciated, >>>> >>>> kind regards, >>>> William Windels >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >> > > -- > 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. 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