Re: Alex speaking oddly

2013-06-28 Thread Kirsten hill
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

Re: Alex speaking oddly

2013-06-27 Thread John Schucker
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

Re: Alex speaking oddly

2013-06-26 Thread Alex Hall
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

Re: Alex speaking oddly

2013-06-26 Thread Christina C.
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

Re: Alex speaking oddly

2013-06-26 Thread Alex Hall
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,

Re: Alex speaking oddly

2013-06-26 Thread Christina C.
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

Re: Alex speaking oddly

2013-06-26 Thread Teresa Cochran
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,