Thanks for this help! Worked perfectly.
- Kirsten
Sent from my iPhone
On 2013-06-26, at 2:21 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
> Go to the vo utility, then speech. Choose the voices tab, open the "default
> voice" popup menu, and select the "customize" option. You will be placed in a
> table with a huge
So what would you recommend for 10.6.8? I'll happily purchase something
that works, though getting to try a trial version first would help a lot
with that. I don't notice all the weird pronunciations being mentioned,
but I do notice Alex dropping words, e.g. while reading web pages. It's
annoyi
Go to the vo utility, then speech. Choose the voices tab, open the "default
voice" popup menu, and select the "customize" option. You will be placed in a
table with a huge variety of voices, each of which has a checkbox next to it.
Check the voices you want, hit the download button, and the voic
I am running the latest OS on my mac where do I find these Nuance voices? Do I
purchase these somewhere? I don't see these voices anywhere. I only see, Alex,
Victoria, Bruce, Kathy, Fred, and Vicky.
Sent from Christina's iMac :)
On Jun 26, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
> That's why I ga
That's why I gave up on Alex. He sounds okay in promos or quick snippets, but I
quickly found him to be annoying for real work. My personal favorites for
speech are either Lee or Serena. Give those and the other Nuance voices a try
(assuming you have 10.8) and see what happens.
On Jun 26, 2013,
Hmmm, one example is that in the subject line of this email, Alex says oddly
with a distinctive H sound at the beginning like its spelled HODDLY. If I
spell out the last name Solden but I refer to the whole family as the Soldens
then Alex speaks "S" it sounds like he actually says es with the s
Hi, Christina,
Can you give an example of a mispronounced word? Are only parts of words being
pronounced? Is Alex only mispronouncing what you type? This has happened to me
when I have capslock enabled. If you can give any examples, folks might have
more of a handle on what's going on. :)
HtH,