Alex,

I had no problem just clicking the image link with the usual VO-space.

Thanks,

Harry

On nov 4, 2012, at 8:15 p.m., Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I listened to a few. Personally I find them a bit choppy and not as smooth as 
> the voices you can get with the mac by default. Still, synthesized speech is 
> one of the most subjective things in the blindness community, so to each 
> their own, I say.
> 
> On a practical note, I had trouble getting the sound files to play. I had to 
> interact with the link for the sample, then vo-right to the actual link (not 
> the image), route the mouse with vo-cmd-f5, and click with vo-shift-space. 
> Sometimes I could just right click and select download file, but that didn't 
> work much of the time.
> On Nov 4, 2012, at 8:58 PM, Shawn Krasniuk <bigbigshawn....@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi guys. Well, it's been two years now with my Mac and I've loved every 
>> moment of it, including the frustrating ones. Lol. But that's not what my 
>> subject is about. Last night, as I was catching up on almost 100 forum posts 
>> on SamNet, I read one of Mike Arrigo's forum posts about his Android Chat 
>> that he does weekly and he mentioned about these voices for the Android 
>> called Cereproc. Well, for those of you that wish there were more 
>> alternatives besides Nuance, Cepstral, and Acapela, these same Cereproc 
>> voices for the Android are also available for the Mac. I went to their 
>> website to see how good these voices sound and, in my opinion, they beat 
>> both Nuance and Acapela. They are really good! As a matter of fact, if I 
>> can't, ahem, find a torrent for them, I'm thinking of buying a few of them. 
>> The price is pretty affordable, about $42 US. I don't know how much that 
>> converts to in Canadian dollars, but I really like them and want to get 
>> them. So thanks Mike for introducing me to these voices. To see how well 
>> these voices sound, go to http://www.cereproc.com/en/osxvoices
>> 
>> Shawn
>> Sent from my white Mac Book
>> 
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