I was wondering if anyone knew where to download (or if you can dl) more voices for the text to speech. I love them!
In specific I wanted the voice of the computer in Portal. You know, that whole the cake is a lie thing.
Does anybody know any free speech voices that you can actually understand unlike the ones that Apple provide? I have tried Cepstral voices but you have to licence them which I don't want to pay for. Any voices for Mac that are free and as good as the Cepstral ones. There must be some?
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I’m trying to use OS X Mavericks to dictate a note to my laptop. I clicked System Preferences from the Apple icon, then Accessibility button and then Speakable Items. After that I clicked Settings, but I don’t know how to TURN ON Speakable Items, which I see selected. I went on to press Listening Key on the Feedback window and said, “Hello, what’s happening?” I didn’t see it as typed text anywhere, as I expected to. I also selected “Open Speech Commands.” Again nothing happened!
how to save "text to speech" as an audio file?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I am having a play with this speech application it doesn't seem to recognise my commands despite them being in the speakable items list, it sometimes picks up random ones but it isn't very reliable.
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Or is it something you get when you upgrade your Osx ?
I am a DJ and would like to get my mac os x to record some text highlighted and read out through the universal access function. When i click option + s i am able to hear the text highlight from a mac almost robot like voice.
I wanted to types out some sentences and record it with the voices given by mac os x
I just heard what sounded like a telephone conversation between two men coming from my speakers on my 2008 MacBook Unibody... This is somewhat disturbing, can anyone offer an explanation?
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The server update settings in Server Admin is set to "all new" updates. Automatically copied. Delete outdated software updates.
1. What are these multi-lingual voices updates, where and why are they used?
2. Can I restrict these updates from automatically downloading, whilst retaining the "all new", automatic copy, setting for the remainder of my other updates?
Server/Software details:
* Our Mac server (OS X server 10.6.8)
* Server Admin v10.6.5 (328.4)
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Mac OS X (10.6.8), Server admin
Does anyone use the Speech Recognition features built into OS X?
I try to 'calibrate' it and have repeated the stupid lines time after time, clearly and slowly in a quiet environment, but they never flash or indicate that it is calibrated.
How many of you use the Speech Recognition built into the iMac? And of those who do use it, do you use the built in mic or do you use a 3rd party microphone?
Interested in Speech Pathologists who use facetime for speech therapy. In particular, I am interested in communication issues with people with mental retardation who can access facetime, but have intelligibility issues.
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PowerBook G4 (12-inch 1.33 GHz), Mac OS X (10.7.2)
How do I put my Mac to sleep using Speech?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
how to register your own speech on an Macbook Air?
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