[access-uk] Re: human sounding speech on apple
- From: "Ibrahim Gucukoglu" <ibrahim_gucukoglu@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 16:36:24 -0000
Hi Rodger.
No, alas apple true to form will not allow their speech engines to work on any
other machine. My brother has a Mac and as well as the voices on the sample
page which are excellent, there are a few that sing, echo and chime like bells
for instance when reading text. One of my particular favourites is good news
which is a singing dectalk reading out the text.
----- Original Message -----
From: roger south
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:30 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: human sounding speech on apple
Now that was fantastic. With my severe hearing loss synth voices are pretty
much a no-go area but that I could understand. If they brought out a UK English
voice I'd want one. Is it available to install on non-apple applications such
as TaxtAloud for example?
Roger
----- Original Message -----
From: M BROWN
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 12:00 PM
Subject: [access-uk] human sounding speech on apple
Thought this might be of interest to some of you.
It is the Apple voiceover which now comes built into their computers.
You will find links on this site that will enable you to listen to samples
of, what I think, is very human sounding synthetic speech. And, like a human,
it even breathes.
Try to beat this for quality if you can at Freedom Scientific, Window eyes
and System Access.
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/
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