Re: Infovox iVox adds genuine children's voices to OS X

2012-11-08 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi Traci. In the VO utility, go to verbosity and select the text tab. You should be able to find settings that let you change how it reads capital letters and deleting text. In those pop up buttons, your choices are change pitch, play a tone, or do nothing. HTH. Shawn Sent from my white Mac Boo

Re: Infovox iVox adds genuine children's voices to OS X

2012-11-07 Thread Traci
Hey, thanks for the info on the bug. I din't know about making those changes. Where do I find the setting for back spacing? Yes, I dislike the data detector thing. Lol, right now, I'm trying out the voice Micah. *Grin,* I think he is southern, he is cracking me up, and I like him. My Dad i

Re: Infovox iVox adds genuine children's voices to OS X

2012-11-07 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Besides, the chipmunk glitch with the Nuance voices in Mountain Lion has been fixed. Now, it just sounds like a chipmunk when it comes across data detectors or if you have it set to do a pitch change for capital letters. They sound like a giant when you go to an edit field or again, if you have

Re: Infovox iVox adds genuine children's voices to OS X

2012-11-05 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I haven't had the chipmunk bug. I use Heather and Ryan constantly and really like them. I've also used some of the Spanish and British voices. In fact, I almost never use any of the Apple voices; even have the login screen set up for an infovox voice. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and

Re: Infovox iVox adds genuine children's voices to OS X

2012-11-05 Thread Traci
Wow, I found the new children's voices very impressive! What are people's experiences using Infovox iVox for Mac? Is it more or less responsive? Does it have the weird chipmunk bug? :) You know, Samantha on the Mac, sometimes sounds like a chipmunk. Thanks, I'm quite interested. Traci Sent

Re: Infovox iVox adds genuine children's voices to OS X

2012-11-05 Thread Esther
Hi All, Just to add to the previous post, you can also hear samples of the new U.S. Micah voice and the new Australian Tyler voice if you navigate through the other entries at the Infovox sample voices page. However, the background for developing more children's voice offerings that appear in this

Re: Infovox iVox adds genuine children's voices to OS X

2012-11-05 Thread Esther
Hi All, You can find samples of the new voices at the Assistiveware Infovox product page for demoing voices: http://www.assistiveware.com/product/infovox-ivox/voices The fastest way to navigate to the links for the new child voices is to use item chooser (VO-I) and type in "boy" or "girl". Altern