Re: realspeak voices on the mac

2009-11-04 Thread erik burggraaf
I year yah. For me though there's not much comparison between tom and Alex. Tom is choppy. All of those realspeak voices are. He's also slow, and I mean really slow. He's farely comfortable to listen to, but it's very hard to tell when he speaks the difference between d and t, b and p

Re: realspeak voices on the mac

2009-11-04 Thread anouk radix
Hello, Oh i still know quite a few people that use the old hal voices in windows because others are just not fast enough, i myself just really hate them though. I have not used infovox in the past because in the past it had a Dutch voice which i absolutely did not like (this was before the

Re: realspeak voices on the mac

2009-11-04 Thread erik burggraaf
The problem with orpheous as I remember, well there were a couple of problems actually. The compression was just ruthlessly bad, and there was an insane amount of bass on them. I'd never heard a synthesizer so boomie. I know some people who really liked them, and now maybe they've impro

Re: realspeak voices on the mac

2009-11-04 Thread erik burggraaf
I'm not sure. I have it here and it says it's compiled, but the instructions are kind'a sketchy and I haven't had time to play with it. I don't see why it wouldn't work with voiceover though. Best, erik burggraaf A+ certified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email:

Re: realspeak voices on the mac

2009-11-04 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I prefer Samantha from RealSpeak. Tom and Daniel are both RealSpeak. I think I like Samantha because it's the same as on the iPhone, though. :). I like her just in general, on a serious note. I definitely have to agree with Anouk. I prefer a human-sounding voice for sure, and it makes

Re: realspeak voices on the mac

2009-11-04 Thread anouk radix
I thought espeak only worked in linux. Isnt it the standard orca voice? Greetings, Anouk On Nov 4, 2009, at 8:17 PM, william lomas wrote: > > espeak doesn't work with voiceover yet though does it? > > On 4 Nov 2009, at 17:06, erik burggraaf wrote: > >> >> Hum. Voices are such a matter of prefere

Re: realspeak voices on the mac

2009-11-04 Thread anouk radix
Hello Erik maybe this is because i did not use speechoften but non- human sounding voices really distract me. Once in a while when i was using windows my braille display gave out and I had to do a week with just speech, naturally i still had to learn stuff for school but it just did not sti

Re: realspeak voices on the mac

2009-11-04 Thread william lomas
espeak doesn't work with voiceover yet though does it? On 4 Nov 2009, at 17:06, erik burggraaf wrote: > > Hum. Voices are such a matter of preference, but personally I thing > realspeak is attrotious and I try to get my clients off of it as soon > as I can. Elloquence is pretty horrible too.

Re: realspeak voices on the mac

2009-11-04 Thread erik burggraaf
Hum. Voices are such a matter of preference, but personally I thing realspeak is attrotious and I try to get my clients off of it as soon as I can. Elloquence is pretty horrible too. Dektalk is not bad but it's fallen a long way from the old hardware days. Alex runs a little faster in

Re: realspeak voices on the mac

2009-11-04 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, As far as I know, they are not. Guess you could contact them and ask them if they are considering making the voices for the Mac as well. I prefer Samantha if I use Windows. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook

realspeak voices on the mac

2009-11-04 Thread anouk radix
Hello I got this question from another Dutch blind person who has the iphone. He is wondering why the realspeak voices are not also available for the mac like the accapella ones are sincethe operating system on the iphone is like os x? Anybody know if realspeak voices will be available for