Comments on: Thursday Notes http://asymptotia.com/2007/03/30/thursday-notes/ Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:14:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Clifford http://asymptotia.com/2007/03/30/thursday-notes/#comment-36271 Clifford Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:01:29 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/03/30/thursday-notes/#comment-36271 Huh, I realized that I had not actually checked the range of voices in a while, and certainly not al the male ones, so i went and listened again. I don't think that the male ones are that much wider a range than than the female ones..... On 10.4 there seem to be a couple more voices for each gender, but frankly, Vicky is the only one that sounds pleasant and close to human to me. The others would drive me nuts. Perhaps that's saying more about my state of mind? I don't know. Cheers, -cvj Huh, I realized that I had not actually checked the range of voices in a while, and certainly not al the male ones, so i went and listened again. I don’t think that the male ones are that much wider a range than than the female ones….. On 10.4 there seem to be a couple more voices for each gender, but frankly, Vicky is the only one that sounds pleasant and close to human to me. The others would drive me nuts. Perhaps that’s saying more about my state of mind? I don’t know.

Cheers,

-cvj

]]> By: Clifford http://asymptotia.com/2007/03/30/thursday-notes/#comment-36270 Clifford Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:51:55 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/03/30/thursday-notes/#comment-36270 Hi Amara, Hey, I like the Vicky voice! Although I do agree that the range of voices could be broader, but eventually you get used to one.... and you have not fully explored a voice until you've had it read some fairly involved text with a variety of words. That can be quite amusing, and revealing. I'm surprised by how much character the speech system has, to be honest. Very surprised. -cvj Hi Amara,

Hey, I like the Vicky voice! Although I do agree that the range of voices could be broader, but eventually you get used to one…. and you have not fully explored a voice until you’ve had it read some fairly involved text with a variety of words. That can be quite amusing, and revealing. I’m surprised by how much character the speech system has, to be honest. Very surprised.

-cvj

]]> By: Amara http://asymptotia.com/2007/03/30/thursday-notes/#comment-36210 Amara Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:13:55 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/03/30/thursday-notes/#comment-36210 Hi Clifford, Thanks for yet another look at your fun-filled(!) day. It's educational for me to see how one combines the teaching and research aspects. My only experience with that was teaching at a university located 2 hours (by Rome's public transportation) away from my research place. The commute was a significant drain on my time, and both places expected more of my time and attention than the hours that existed in a day. I can see how it would help to have both located at the same place. :-) I looked further into my Mac System software regarding the speech capabilities. I see that Apple provides a few more "normal" gendered voices for the men than for the women. 'Victoria' and 'Vicky' are both supposedly female and 35 and with what I would consider minor differences in their voices. (Vicky is a little sweeter-sounding.) And they provide 'Agnes' too, another normal-sounding 35 yo female. And what does Apple provide for the women users of their software? Bruce, a normal 35 yo male, Ralph and 'Bad News', both 50 yo males, and Fred, Albert, 'Deranged', 'Hysterical' and 'Whisper', all 30 yo males with drastically different voices. No subtlety for the ladies! Hi Clifford, Thanks for yet another look at your fun-filled(!) day. It’s educational for me to see how one combines the teaching and research aspects. My only experience with that was teaching at a university located 2 hours (by Rome’s public transportation) away from my research place. The commute was a significant drain on my time, and both places expected more of my time and attention than the hours that existed in a day. I can see how it would help to have both located at the same place. :-)

I looked further into my Mac System software regarding the speech capabilities. I see that Apple provides a few more “normal” gendered voices for the men than for the women.
‘Victoria’ and ‘Vicky’ are both supposedly female and 35 and with what I would consider minor differences in their voices. (Vicky is a little sweeter-sounding.) And they provide ‘Agnes’ too, another normal-sounding 35 yo female.

And what does Apple provide for the women users of their software? Bruce, a normal 35 yo male, Ralph and ‘Bad News’, both 50 yo males, and Fred, Albert, ‘Deranged’, ‘Hysterical’ and ‘Whisper’, all 30 yo males with drastically different voices. No subtlety for the ladies!

]]> By: End Notes - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2007/03/30/thursday-notes/#comment-36155 End Notes - Asymptotia Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:27:01 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/03/30/thursday-notes/#comment-36155 [...] « Thursday Notes [...] [...] « Thursday Notes [...]

]]>