Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-23 Thread Matt Dierckens
of course you cant. That's how they were programmed. I don't know why you would want to change the pitch or inflection of those if they did have that capability On 2011-07-21, at 10:34 PM, Shen wrote: > I hope Apple didn't rush implementing the voices too soon. But it certainly > feels that way.

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-22 Thread James Malone
Hi. To be perfectly honest with you, I can't say I'm too excited about these voices. I can honestly say that I've never been that fond of them, even on windows. Maybe its just me. Just my personal opinion. On 7/22/11, Bart Bunting wrote: > Hi, > > I find the fact that you can't change these param

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-21 Thread Bart Bunting
Hi, I find the fact that you can't change these parameters quite disappointing. Guess there isn't anything we can do about it though. I was looking forward to using these new voices with emacspeak. Without the ability to change pitch and intonation it makes them almost useless for emacspeak. O

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-21 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hey everyone. Just to clear things up, I've had the Nuance voices on my PC and you can't change the pitch or intonation of the voices. That's how Nuance programmed them, although for Tom I'm not sure why they didn't implement his ability of doing exclamations like they had in his demo on the Nua

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-21 Thread Shen
> > Chris. > > - Original Message - From: "Shen" > To: > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 10:42 PM > Subject: Re: Nuance voices > > >> I'm can't confirm that in Windows. But if they are full SAPI 5 compliant >> voices, such as Neo

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
imply making an observation. I'm sorry if you didn't take it as such. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Shen" To: Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 10:42 PM Subject: Re: Nuance voices I'm can't confirm that in Windows. But if they are full SAPI 5 complia

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
You're right Zack, I can't change them with the sapi5 versions either. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Zachary Kline" To: Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 10:38 PM Subject: Re: Nuance voices Hi, I don't know about you, but I don't recall being able

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I've never been able to do that on I O S, nor with the sapi versions on Windows, so I don't think that's an Apple problem per sey. I think it's more the nature of the beast in the voices themselves. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Shen" To: Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 10:34 P

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-21 Thread Zachary Kline
You're probably right. Still, I do wonder if there is a reason for this inflexibility on Apple's part. I don't know enough about programming or licensing concerns, but perhaps either or both of those came into play here. Best, Zack. On Jul 21, 2011, at 7:42 PM, Shen wrote: > I'm can't confirm

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-21 Thread Shen
I'm can't confirm that in Windows. But if they are full SAPI 5 compliant voices, such as NeoSpeech Julie, pitch and intonation can be changed. And do you really want to compare a Mac to Windows? I may be wrong, but I believe you can change the pitch of Samantha in an iPHone. On Jul 21, 2011, at

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-21 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi, I don't know about you, but I don't recall being able to change the pitch of these voices under Windows either. SOme voices simply have this limitation, such as the Acapella group's. Best, Zack. On Jul 21, 2011, at 7:34 PM, Shen wrote: > I hope Apple didn't rush implementing the voices too

Re: Nuance voices

2011-07-21 Thread Donna Goodin
I can confirm this. I also tried to change the pitch, to no avail. And, when I experienced the problem I described this morning of no intonation or pause to indicate end of sentence, I tried changing the intonation, and that didn't work either. Cheers, Donna On Jul 21, 2011, at 10:34 PM, Shen