Hello Daniel. I prefer quality voices as I can't always hear what the compact voices are saying.
I live in the UK and actually don't like Daniel very much. I only use Daniel for Siri on my I phone and it has to be high quality. Otherwise I use samantha. I have tried other voices but don't like them. OM my Mac I use samantha and use Daniel for the time. I have the Apple script to tell me date and time as I can do right option T or let the time happen automatically every 30 minutes. I wouldn't know anything about the vocaliser Expressive voices. Thanks. Kawal. Sent from my iPhone > On 24 Dec 2013, at 12:43 am, Daniel McGee <danielmcgee...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > Dear all, I have been thinking of late about the difference between the two > different voices you get with Voiceover premium and compact so here are my > thoughts. I would love to know what you think yourself and if you want to add > to the discussion then by all means feel free to do so. > > Note: this list is by no means extensive its just what I think and what I > write may differ to each and everyone’s personal experience. > > This is evaluated with the english Daniel voice. > > Premium voices > Advantages: > 1. Of a higher quality to listen to when reading. > > 2. Louder in volume. > > 3. At times, may pronounce a word more clearly in addition, also be more > accurate at saying certain words better. > > Disadvantages: > 1. When trying to speed up the voice after 45% on OSX or 30% on IOS. Find > that they become less intelligible to understand. Therefore, finding that I > have to remain at the above percentages or even decrease the speed. > > 2. When reading passages that contain words e.g. the, in, were, her and with. > Find that such short words can be easily missed. So then I'm forced to > interact with document, HTML area of webpage etc to find the currently missed > word and then resume with say all after understanding it with the words > method either IOS or OSX. > > Compact voices > > Advantages: > 1. Able to easily speed up above the previous percentages. In other words, > listen to the voices at a reasonably faster speaking-rate. > > 2. When reading documents find that shorter words are read, pronounced and > spoken better. This seems to be the case too when reviewing by words. > > 3. Overall, to me it seems to be a better experience when reading by say all > in the fact that clarity, pronunciation and understandability are the key > factors to my hearing and productivity. > For me, the premium voices seem to be a bit for lack of a better word “strong > on the ear.” I find the compact voices more robotic and interestingly this > feels more natural to hear for me. However, Feel free to dis-agree if you > want to and if so I would love to know why? > > Disadvantages > 1. obviously, the voices are of a lower quality so some people may find or > even struggle to use the compact voices hence the premium ones for those who > need them for a more natural sounding reading experience. > > 2. Pronunciation and clarity of words may not be for the end user liking. > Again, echoing the above with a different factor this being the compact > version taken into account. > > Conclusion > This primarily being focused on the UK Daniel voice. Compact or premium. I > have found that I move towards the compact version of this voice. However, > since the release of Mavericks and IOS7, I make use occasionally of the > premium version in certain cases since they have made compact more worser in > my humble opinion in the latest version of the operating systems than there > previous counterparts. > > Now is though where you guys come in. For those who are using the Nuance > voices on OSX and IOS which voice do you use and do you prefer compact or > premium and if so why? > > Seriously, ladies and gentlemen, I would love to know what you use and why > you use it. I have done extensive testing to the best of my ability which is > why I wanted to post my experience and findings to you in the hope that you > will share your own thoughts too about the voices. > > If you could share as much information as possible on how you use your voices > speaking rate, type of voice etc then would be grate. > I just want to know how others use there voices and what they prefer etc. > > Ok I’m going to stop now. If you haven’t already fallen asleep by the end of > this post then full marks to you. lol > Its I wanted to make it as detailed as possible so that people know what I’m > asking. > > Thank you > > Daniel > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. 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