![]() I hope Apple will add a 'Corrections' feature to the Speech preference pane to allow people to enter corrections, new words, and exceptions. It's not perfect: he makes more pronunciation mistakes than Cepstral David, but that's to be expected for v.1.0. My favorite part is that Alex actually breathes audibly just before starting a new sentence! I couldn't figure out why it sounded so natural, then a friend pointed out the quick inhalation just before he reads each new sentence. You can only use a number between 1 and 127 for the speech tags. To use these MacinTalk Speech Tags, you must be using Mac TTS Software that supports Speech Tags. ( ) BTW, Cepstral's engine is fully compatible with Leopard too, in case you like their voices better - and they do have a much wider range than Apple does. You can control attributes of Mac Alexs (and other Mac Voices) speech attributes, such as pitch, rate, modulation, and volume. It's leagues better than the Cepstral David voice I paid $30 for last year. Has anyone played around with the new (669MB!) Alex voice available in the text-to-speech section of the Speech preference pane? It's eerie how good it is: the first voice that's good enough for regular proofreading, though I think it sounds better a hair faster than the default speed.
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