[macvoiceover] Re: using different voices for different things on the mac?

  • From: Justin Mann <w9fyi@xxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:25:25 -0700

I suspect that it will make some stuff work better.  i notice that the infovox 
voices to tend to take up an extra thread on activity monitor, but they do work 
pretty good.  I'm impressed.  
On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:02 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:

> 
> On Mar 24, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Justin Mann wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> I've just installed the infovox voices as a demo I'd like to use those for 
>> reading.  However, I'd like to use Alex for various system announcements.  
>> Is this possible?
> Yep, it sure is.
> In your voiceover utility , if you click on voices, you can adjust all sorts 
> of things, including which voice is used for announcements, which one is the 
> primary voice, and so forth.  You can also set pitch, volume, and speed on 
> each voice, as well as select which voice does the talking.  This helps, 
> especially if you're doing a lot of reading, because if you're using 
> different voices, then you don't get interrupted, your primary voice keeps 
> right on reading while the other one pops up and speaks the info in the 
> announcement message box.
> Hth.
> 
> 
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