- #FRED AND SIRI TEXT TO SPEECH MAC OS#
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ResponsiveVoice UK English text to speech (both male and female) is supported natively in Chrome desktop, Safari, and iOS. Chrome on Android does support UK English Male in the operating system, but it is not accessible to the browser, so ResponsiveVoice falls back to UK English Female as the best case available. ResponsiveVoice gets you an all-in-one, affordable and pain-free solution to integrate text to speech with a UK English accent, one that only weighs 14kB and solves the myriad problems speech synthesis entails, which include (but unfortunately are not limited to) per-character costs, having to initialise the speech engine after page load, timing delays between API calls, speech rate problems, it’s a mess we chose to tidy up so you don’t have to! UK English text to speech with ResponsiveVoice Compatibility There's no "logic" that's shared between voices in those packages, hence the heavy weight of installing new “modern” voices in other languages.UK English text to speech needs good technology to work well, but that technology is difficult to come by, and it’s always a pain to implement.
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Of course, Alex would have filled a full hard drive at the time.
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Size note / a bit of historyĪs for the relative sizes, Alex is very heavy because it is of much higher quality, and is actually from a totally different generation than the others: it shipped with Leopard, while others have been around since Mac OS 7 (had a lot of fun with them, actually ) ). “Fred” is the lightest “serious” voice, so I'd advise leaving it in any case.
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So, even if you want to remove all voices, leave at least one there, or you won't be able to install any again. Please note that you must leave at least one voice for the “Customize” item to be accessible. Nevertheless, considering they weigh, all together, less than 35MB, I'd let them in place. You'll need to back them up if you want to remove them but keep a way to get them back (or you could use a package manager like Pacifist to extract only them from the Lion installer package, but that's a lot of hassle for not much). The “funny” voices, however, are not downloadable.
Therefore, if you ever delete the original “Alex” voice (the heavy one, 400+MB), you can download it again through this menu. Installing voices / what to back upĪs you underlined, Lion provides a “Customize” item in the list of voices that allows you to download voices in many languages. I have personally long removed Alex, along with other /System/Library and /Library items. There's no other way to manage the speech items, but since this one is without consequences as long as you leave at least one voice, it is actually pretty nice to simply manipulate the filesystem. You can confirm this by adding / removing / renaming elements in the /System/Library/Sounds folder, for example. Indeed, the list in the System Preferences is dynamically generated from the items found in the said folder, just like the Sound alerts, or the wallpapers. Removing items from /System/Library is indeed usually not a good thing to do, but here, it does not have any practical consequences beyond making the deleted voices unavailable. Just like most other Library items in OS X, they are inherited, which means you could install them in /Library/Speech/Voices and ~/Library/Speech/Voices. All voices are in /System/Library/Speech/Voices.
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