Comments on: Mac OS X Lion Adds Amazing New Text-to-Speech Voices – Listen to Samples

By: Terrin

Terrin — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:26:08 +0000

Apple has had this feature before Smart phones were even invented.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 08:04:19 +0000

Wooow! I needed a text to speech software, but didnt know that it works right away in mac without any extra software. Thanks Paul!

By: paz

paz — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:50:06 +0000

I cannot understand “Mikko” at all. And I’m a native Finnish speaker. Hmm… come think of it, maybe that’s the problem.

At least the umlaut-a:s seem to be simply missing from the words. hard to tell if it’s the source text or poor sound synthesis.

By: Houru

Houru — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:06:42 +0000

I agree, it was totally garbage.

By: Frungi

Frungi — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:49:33 +0000

Um… when did they not have this feature?

By: Bas

Bas — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:59:19 +0000

Read4Me reads Microsoft Word documents, Rich Text, HTML, Open Office, and many other types of text files. It pronounces the text in a choice of voices and you can adjust the speed, pitch and other properties. You can create a soundtrack with dialogs in multiple voices, saving to audio file or AudioBook format.

By: TrekCaptainUSA

TrekCaptainUSA — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:52:35 +0000

What’s interesting is that the Tom voice in Mac OS X Lion is the same voice that’s used in NOAA’s All Hazards Weather Radio. It does make sense there. I mean NOAA also has a contract with Nuance (The owner of SpeechWorks).

By: Scott Cruce

Scott Cruce — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:23:13 +0000

I wonder if you can use Ivona voices on a Mac. Nuance voices are average, at best. Mac voice Alex is better than the others you download.

By: How to Add New Voices to Mac OS X Lion

How to Add New Voices to Mac OS X Lion — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:09:25 +0000

[...] and accents and are probably some of the best computer rendered voices out there. We got a sneak peak at these months ago, but now they’re accessible for everyone to add to Lion. But guess what? [...]

By: Possible iCloud Feature List

Possible iCloud Feature List — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:00:17 +0000

[...] Improved voices and speech recognition, the improved voices are already found in Mac OS X Lion developer builds [...]

By: iOS 5 to Bring Revamped Notifications and Widgets?

iOS 5 to Bring Revamped Notifications and Widgets? — Fri, 27 May 2011 19:15:25 +0000

[...] is also a brief mention of the Nuance voices in both Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5, although it is unclear to everyone how exactly they will be used in iOS. [...]

By: #198: Taivas varjele mitä sieltä tulee! | PuhujainKulma - viikottainen paneelikeskustelupodcast teknologiasta

Wed, 18 May 2011 20:09:32 +0000

[...] Täh? Li n O X: sa Nuancen puh synte sointia, jo a kuulos mu ten yvältä, m ta suo i ähän pätkii. [...]

By: Nuance voice samples provide a taste of Lion text-to-speech - Veletech

Nuance voice samples provide a taste of Lion text-to-speech - Veletech — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:45:42 +0000

[...] originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 17 May 2011 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments Tags: developer preview, [...]

By: Erkka Piirainen

Erkka Piirainen — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:22:26 +0000

The Finnish sample is seriously broken. It sounds like a poor walkie talkie connection. Almost all words are missing parts of them.

By: Asculta noile "voci" implementate in Mac OS X Lion

Asculta noile "voci" implementate in Mac OS X Lion — Tue, 17 May 2011 05:23:22 +0000

[...] una alta aveti mai jos cateva dintre noile voci folosite in Lion. Toata lumea le lauda considerand ca reprezinta o mare [...]