“In March 2011, AppleInsider was first to report that Apple would be bundling dozens of high quality new speech synthesis voices supporting a wide variety of languages and regional dialects,” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for AppleInsider.
“Mac OS X Lion shipped later that year with support for downloading the optional voices within the Speech pref pane of System Preferences. In Mountain Lion, OS X retains the default system voice of Alex, first introduced in OS X 10.5 Leopard in late 2007,” Dilger reports. “However, uses can browse higher quality alternatives from the revamped Dictation & Speech pref panel, by selecting ‘Customize’ from the System Voice selection popup.”
Dilger reports, “The system will then download each of the selected voice packs chosen for installation by the user. The optional voices weigh in nearly 1 GB each.”
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Kyoko is awesome. The inflection is incredibly accurate.
I like Karen (australia) too, as well as the Dutch voices.
Thanks Apple.
They should get this for Larry Page.
This would give him a voice, but what about a new brain.
Samantha is hot. 😉
That’s the one I use. I slowed her voice down a bit to make her sound even sexier.
What about the actor Michael Caine voice? “It’s 6:00 o’clock. Not many people know that!”.
Is it just me, or does she sound really drunk when you slow her tempo down?
Oh my God, slow Samantha’s speech down! She sounds like a wasted Siri! Try it!!!
Actually, she sounds like Madonna, when she’s not trying to sound British. That’s why I deleted her,
:-Q*****
Can we get a Zooey? There should be a Zooey.
Why?
So your mac stares around looking clueless and answers everything in the same tone of voice?
My fave voice for Mac is Peter, a British English voice. I bought him for 99¢ to use with SpeakIt on my iOS devices. Sadly, if you want to buy him for Mac, he costs $99 (!) as part of an iVox package. (0_o)
Yeah, I’ve ranted at them twice about this situation. They won’t budge. (x_@)