[macvoiceover] Re: maybe slightly OT: AT&T Natural Voices
- From: Jacob Schmude <j.schmude@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:33:09 -0700
Hi Mike
No, nextup.com was offering the ones for Windows. I think they still
are, actually, but they never offered the Mac versions. As they don't
have a Mac application, that's not surprising.
I totally agree about the Nuance voices. Don't really care for most of
the Acapella ones myself, I can still here their synthetic artifacts
particularly in the American English versions, probably because I used
to use their older diphone-based voices extensively under Linux. That
was back when they were called Babel Technologies and offered their
voices to the Mbrola project. they were far from the best synthetic
voices, but they were the best on linux at the time, and the current
ones still sound a lot like them to me. Voice is one of those
subjective things, basically we each like what we like, and I just
don't happen to really care for most of those.
It's too bad our tts voice options on OS X are really a bit limited,
either the Apple voices, Acapella, or Cepstral (which has serious bugs
still which prevent it from being a good voice to use with VO). Wish
there were more voices like Alex, though, my personal opinion is he's
one of the best voices to come along as of yet. Still, variety never
hurts.
On Aug 13, 2008, at 4:56, Mike Arrigo wrote:
I believe nextup.com was offering them at one time. One set of
voices that I really wish would become available is the nuance
voices. Out of all the high quality voices, I think those are my
favorite, though the ones from Acapela are very good as well.
On Aug 13, 2008, at 2:11 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi everyone
A while ago, I think it was back in 2005, I remember hearing that
the AT&T natural voices were being offered for Mac OS X. Does
anyone know if they're still being offered and if they are, have
they been updated for Intel Macs? Also, does anyone know who's
selling them if they're still around?
Thanks
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