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Listen to the Nuance Text-to-Speech Voices Found in Mac OS X Lion
Late last week, Netputing revealed that Mac OS X Lion Developer Previews include an option to install new text-to-speech voices. The voices were actually found to be identical to voices from a Nuance speech product, seemingly confirming that Apple will be using Nuance technology in Mac OS X Lion. The voices aren't quite yet usable in Lion, as Netputing notes that you currently get an error message in Lion when trying to install them. OSX Daily, however, points out that the voices are available online for sample:
- English American Accent – SamanthaThe new voices are distinct improvements over the previous text-to-speech voices.
- English British Accent – Serena
- French Canadian – Felix
- Spanish – Monica
- Finnish – Mikko (seen in screenshot)
- German – Yannick (seen in screenshot)
- Mandarin Chinese – Mei Ling
Rumors had pegged Apple's Nuance negotiations to be centered around iOS 5 rather than Mac OS X Lion, although there could be a broader agreement between the two companies. Apple's interest in Nuance seems primarily due to their speech recognition technology rather than text-to-speech functionality, as Siri had used Nuance to power their voice-activated search. Apple acquired Siri in April 2010 and is expected to integrate its technology into iOS.
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100 months ago
They still suck horribly.
Oh well, I was hoping they had innovated something in the last 4 years, and had voices that could actually read a sentence with coherence. Guess not. Here's hoping for 10.8 in 2015.
Oh well, I was hoping they had innovated something in the last 4 years, and had voices that could actually read a sentence with coherence. Guess not. Here's hoping for 10.8 in 2015.
100 months ago
I'd like a voice that sounds like HAL from 2001 A Space Odyssey. Maybe a good C3PO and Enterprise computer voice (Majel Barrett).
Perhaps they should make a system for just adding your own voices. With sample texts to read for generating all sounds in a given language. Then people good at impersonating these voices can post them online.
Just like I have a good Yoda and decent Darth Vader for my Tom Tom. Before the official voices were released. Though I realize these are not as thorough as all sounds of a language.
I'm sure many enthusiast would create good voices.
What I wonder is when performing text to speech. Does the software just look at the word and try to pronounce it? Or does it have a dictionary to work off the phonemic representations of the words instead for all 200,000+ English words, while guessing on misspelled words and proper nouns.
Perhaps they should make a system for just adding your own voices. With sample texts to read for generating all sounds in a given language. Then people good at impersonating these voices can post them online.
Just like I have a good Yoda and decent Darth Vader for my Tom Tom. Before the official voices were released. Though I realize these are not as thorough as all sounds of a language.
I'm sure many enthusiast would create good voices.
What I wonder is when performing text to speech. Does the software just look at the word and try to pronounce it? Or does it have a dictionary to work off the phonemic representations of the words instead for all 200,000+ English words, while guessing on misspelled words and proper nouns.
100 months ago
Man, those voices are terrible. The guys at Neospeech (http://www.neospeech.com/) put them to shame.
100 months ago
Techno remix?
I found it entertaining at first to find 'Samantha' speaking alongside a ridiculous techno mix when i turned my speakers on.
Turns out it was just my iTunes playing some basshunter haha.
I found it entertaining at first to find 'Samantha' speaking alongside a ridiculous techno mix when i turned my speakers on.
Turns out it was just my iTunes playing some basshunter haha.
100 months ago
Argh!
Not to be a stickler for grammar, but you cannot center "around"; you center "on" something. You can "revolve around", but two should not be conflated.
This is a GREAT tool for common errors in English: http://bit.ly/12iFi
Not to be a stickler for grammar, but you cannot center "around"; you center "on" something. You can "revolve around", but two should not be conflated.
This is a GREAT tool for common errors in English: http://bit.ly/12iFi
100 months ago
So where is the english CANADIAN ?? Does apple know that 95% of all Canadians are not francophones?
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