wow, i finally heard a leopard breathe!

[rdfreak]

I was listening to The Blind double Trouble eppisode on the apple mak, and found it very interesting! but the thing is, a few months ago, a few people did an extremely good review of the voiceover Leopard on apple Mak at computer users, and one of the things that stood out for me, was the fact that, they said it actually breathes. For the life of me, I could not hear this when they tried to demonstrate this over skype.
Later on, Dane then sent me another file so as I could attempt to hear this breathing, but i could not hear it.
but just then, when Edward (from the podcast) was setting up his mak, and figuring out the voice, it would read some long strings of text, and, it very clearly breathed! I was so excited, but kinda freaked out at the same time! Even though it kinda sounds natural, well .. it's just bizarre; having a speech synth doing that! Lol
maybe i will get an apple one of these days! but i am kinda building my account up again, after it took a bit of a bashing with my holiday and my m-power.
Til next time, RdFreak

Comments

[braillereader.livejournal.com]

Hi, when I first heard the Mac breathe I thought it was cool but freaky also. Now that I use a Mac on a regular basis, I'm used to it now so don't always pay attention to the fact that it takes a breath. Not sure if all the voices do this, but Allex does which is the one I use. I absolutely love Voiceover and the Mac just because I now don't have to worry about jfw upgrades and stuff.

[rdfreak.livejournal.com]

well yeh, that's the main attraction i think. it's totally ridiculous, expecting us to upgrade jaws all the time for the latest benefits.

[braillereader.livejournal.com]

I agree. The other huge selling point for me anyway is a Mac is accessible rright out of the box as soon as you turn it on. That's the main reason I got it, no more having to wait to install screen readers, just turn it on and you are good to go. Not to mention that I can walk to any Mac even ones in an apple store and be able to use them.

[rdfreak.livejournal.com]

yeh well that's it! next time I'm in such a store, I'll be trying one out too! :)