The good thing about these additional voices is Apple has not only included a few more novelty voices but they have also included other languages besides English and even other accents within the English Language. Many of the voices are by default not included in the installation and need to be downloaded on request. Well, with the release of Mac OS X Lion they have expanded on the available voices. How To: Adding New Voices For Text To Speech In Mac OS X LionĪs many of you would know Apple has presented text to speech in the Mac OS for many years even pre-dating Mac OS X. For more of Mark’s tips visit his site, follow him on Twitter, or browse his archive of posts here. This Mac tip is provided by Mark Greentree and was originally posted on Mark’s blog – Everyday Mac Support. I hope Apple will add a 'Corrections' feature to the Speech preference pane to allow people to enter corrections, new words, and exceptions.īut it's still a home run for people who use text-to-speech! It's not perfect: he makes more pronunciation mistakes than Cepstral David, but that's to be expected for v.1.0. My favorite part is that Alex actually breathes audibly just before starting a new sentence! I couldn't figure out why it sounded so natural, then a friend pointed out the quick inhalation just before he reads each new sentence. ( ) BTW, Cepstral's engine is fully compatible with Leopard too, in case you like their voices better - and they do have a much wider range than Apple does. It's leagues better than the Cepstral David voice I paid $30 for last year. Has anyone played around with the new (669MB!) Alex voice available in the text-to-speech section of the Speech preference pane? It's eerie how good it is: the first voice that's good enough for regular proofreading, though I think it sounds better a hair faster than the default speed.
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