If memory serves me right, and this might have changed, but I recall someone saying that these voices do not work well with VoiceOver. If I am thinking of the same developer, there were promises that they were working on it, but I don't recall if this was these voices.
Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com Twitter, @macfortheblind APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Nov 4, 2012, at 10:24 PM, Harry Hogue <harryhog...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> >> >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >> mehg...@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.
