Comments on: “Alex, come here. I need you.” http://watchingapple.com/2008/05/voices/ Thoughts about Apple and design Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:07:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nick http://watchingapple.com/2008/05/voices/comment-page-1/#comment-6042 Nick Thu, 15 May 2008 09:38:14 +0000 http://watchingapple.com/2008/05/voices/#comment-6042 The post is interesting and informative. The fun bit was the Shakespeare quote. Most of those voices sound "too American" for an English playwright's words to me, although, in point of fact, a modern English accent would doubtless sound pretty weird to Shakespeare. The word ne'er trips most of the voices up: they mispronounce it as "near". I'll bet most of these voices aren't very good with archaic words and contractions. Charles sounds like he's had a few drinks before going on stage. The post is interesting and informative. The fun bit was the Shakespeare quote.

Most of those voices sound “too American” for an English playwright’s words to me, although, in point of fact, a modern English accent would doubtless sound pretty weird to Shakespeare.

The word ne’er trips most of the voices up: they mispronounce it as “near”. I’ll bet most of these voices aren’t very good with archaic words and contractions.

Charles sounds like he’s had a few drinks before going on stage.

]]> By: Nyhthawk http://watchingapple.com/2008/05/voices/comment-page-1/#comment-6023 Nyhthawk Wed, 14 May 2008 17:02:04 +0000 http://watchingapple.com/2008/05/voices/#comment-6023 Great article. Nice to see someone commenting on text-to-speech in Mac OS X. You may also want to mention Acapela's great voices: They are used as the narration for all the videos at: and here: Great article. Nice to see someone commenting on text-to-speech in Mac OS X. You may also want to mention Acapela’s great voices:

They are used as the narration for all the videos at:

and here:

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