My point exactly. Alex has more than his share of pronunciation
eccentricities. However, after so many years of Eloquence use, I'm going to
give him a good try. Let's see how adaptive I can be in making the proper
auditory closures so that eventually, he won't seem so quirky.
Craig"
On Saturday,
To me, regards sounds more like “regardsh,” when used in a sentence. I’m just
listening too hard or not.
> On Dec 11, 2015, at 9:00 AM, Craig Werner wrote:
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> Thanks very much to all who have responded to my request for help.
>
> Shaun and Alex, I typically run my Mac OS voices at around 50 pe
Yeah, Alex voice does have rhythm and pronunciation inconsistencies but I
notice different ones with different voices and still find all these voices too
human sounding and a little bit too slow for my taste. But they're not going to
get a DoubleTalk LT style voice for OS X and iOS any time soo
Alex, you said something potentially helpful. Referring to my
perceived mispronunciation of the end of "regards," you wrote: "my
brain hears what it expects at the end of 'regards'. " It may well be
that I am not sufficiently tuned into Alex's accent to allow my brain
to make the proper closure.
2015 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: Alex for the Mac and Correctness of Pronunciation
Hi. I don't notice any pronunciation issues with Alex. Just out of
curiosity, what's the rate of your speech? I keep all my voices at a 35%
speech rate because they sound the most natural with that rate. Any hig
Using Alex on 10.11.2 at 70%, I noticed no problems in your examples. However,
my rate is fast enough that picking out a D sound versus a hard G sound at the
end of a word is impossible; my brain hears what it expects at the end of
'regards'. In the first example, though, I heard 'department' qu
Thanks very much to all who have responded to my request for help.
Shaun and Alex, I typically run my Mac OS voices at around 50 percent.
Sometimes, the faults I perceive are accentuated if I run them at a
rate under 50%.
Nicolai, here are a couple of examples which demonstrate the kind of
behavi
I use Alex at 70% on iOS and OS X, and have rarely noticed a problem. Put
another way, Alex has no more pronunciation oddities, to my ear, than do other
popular voices. Often, he's easier to understand, and he seems to try less
auto-expansion tricks than do Nuance voices, which is nice. He also
Hi!
I'd also be very curious for a more specific example (a sentence where this
occurs.)
I do notice that sometimes, Alex does swallow words and almost mashes them
together with others, making it hard to hear parts of the word, but Apple is
usually good about addressing this. This happens so r
Hi. I don't notice any pronunciation issues with Alex. Just out of curiosity,
what's the rate of your speech? I keep all my voices at a 35% speech rate
because they sound the most natural with that rate. Any higher is unnatural.
Shawn
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Hello,everyone.
As we all know, preference for one voice over another is a matter of
subjective interpretation. However, it strikes me that one criterion
is less subjective than the others: the ability of a synthesizer to
pronounce a word correctly in the dialect and language the user has
chosen
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