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?
View 5 RepliesI 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.
Why Apple doesn´t provide TV-shows in Austria?
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Cosidering purchase of a new17.3" Macbook Pro Laptop in early June 2012, will Apple provide a free or discounted version of OS X Mountain Lion?
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Cosidering purchase of a new17.3" M
Is there a way to add more or newer voices or options to the mac speech feature ?
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?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI was wondering whether anyone out there knows how to turn the mac automated speech voices to an audio track that can be used in a video. By the automated speech I mean the ones where you can type in what you want it to say, you can choose a voice, (I think one is called alex), then right click and click start speaking. I want to use this as an audio track in a video.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI installed OnyX to improve my system's performance. When I tried to use it, a window showed up asking me to enter the password. The window is different from the one that I normally see during installation. Is it safe to enter the password? In general, can hackers use freeware to collect password from the users? If so, how can we tell whether or not to enter the password?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI have been told so,but it does not seem logical to me.What do you think?
View 5 Replies View RelatedScrolling through that little window is the most annoying thing, besides, right in the middle of a scroll the window sends you back to the top. So you have to start again. There are updates for iTunes at least once a week and yet none of these make this feature a bit more usable.
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Mac OS X (10.7.3)
For the second month in a row my company has grossly exceeded its bandwidth limit.The culprit is our Mac server automatically downloading ~15GB of updates in a given day of the month, most recently the 21 March. Every update is labeled "multi-lingual voices" (version 1.0, post date 16 March 2012), each update's size 200MB to 500MB. There is no reference/description regarding what these updates are, only a product id e.g. "041-4502 (Multi-Lingual Voices)"Â
The server update settings in Server Admin is set to "all new" updates. Automatically copied. Delete outdated software updates.Â
1. What are these multi-lingual voices updates, where and why are they used?Â
2. Can I restrict these updates from automatically downloading, whilst retaining the "all new", automatic copy, setting for the remainder of my other updates?
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* Our Mac server (OS X server 10.6.8)
* Server Admin v10.6.5 (328.4)Â
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Mac OS X (10.6.8), Server admin
Gave my son an iPOD last Christmas, 8 GB, now running 1.0.3 software. Nano I think. Has worked fine until now. Unit seems frozen. Was finally able to restore the unit after several attempts following Apple procedure but wheel button does not provide control so we cannot even select language to proceed. iTunes still recognizes the unit and appears on desktop but that's it. Display also quickly goes into "sleep" mode and dims. Battery display indicates full charge. Wondering if the wheel button is shot. I'm far from an iPod expert.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Does anyone use the Speech Recognition features built into OS X?
I have several text files that I would like to have Text to Speech read for me. However the software does not pause at natural breaks like normal speech. For instance after commas, periods, end of paragraphs, etc. Are there control codes that I can put in my text files to cause the software to pause? I can edit my files accordingly but I can't seem to locate control codes.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI 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.Â
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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?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIm new to the mac and I'm looking to find out if there is a keyboard shortcut I can use to have my macbook read out selected text to me other than me having to go the the services menu
View 3 Replies View Relatedhow can i access a text to speech program? i am able to change the settings in system preferences but where is the program?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for speech to text software. any recommendations? Ones with a free trial to test are preferred.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a pc powered iMac and I'm looking for speech to text software. Of course all of the software that sounds really great, like macspeech dictate, needs an intel based machine.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for a good microphone to use the speech settings in Mac OSX, I'm not sure if the Mac Pro comes with one built in or not, but either way, it can't hear me. So I'm wondering if anyone knows of a good quality one, perhaps one that simply clips on to the screen, or plugs into a USB slot on the screen, so I can talk to my Mac?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI was just messing around with Speech Commands and accidentally discovered that if, in Finder, you say "Quit this application", Finder will quit!EDIT: I should also add that if you don't have any other applications open, it will reopen right away
View 1 Replies View RelatedIn exploring my new macbook pro, I've somehow set it to say the time every hour. How do I get it to stop this annoying feature! I forget which menu I turned it on from.
View 3 Replies View RelatedA couple of weeks ago I saw a video on CNet demonstrating new features of Snow Leopard. One of them shown was in Safari. He showed that you could highlight text on a page, right-click on it and select to add the text to Mail as a note or send it to iTunes as speech. I don't see either of these options. Did Apple remove this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to convert a text file to an audio file by using 'text to speech'. Originally, the text was created in Pages but just in case I also saved it as an rtf file. I want to save it as an mp3. Also, once I've got the workflow, I would like to use this again with other text files. I know I can save the workflow and I can do the task by Automator, but I must be doing something wrong. Should I use the 'record' function? What am I doing wrong? I called AppleCare but of course, after 15 minutes they recommended their online discussions. They don't know anything about these basics. The guy asked me, what I tried. I told him that I tried Terminal, but I was confident that Automator and creating a workflow would be the solution for me. He didn't even know where Automator was. I suppose, this was the last time that I purchased an AppleCare.
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