Better voices for System Voice?

[bobobo]

I am looking for better voices for the System voice. The best voice in the list is Bruce but try using him to read a book and you will be killing him not soon after.

I will be upgrading to Leopard in a couple of days but I am wondering if there is anyway to add better voices to the system?

 

[unity]

There sure is, for a price.

Check out Cepstral.

I purchased a voice, David, and it was worth it. I have not tried installing it within Leopard though.

Edit: And FYI, the new ALex voice is STUNNING in Leopard. Alex even inhales a bit before starting a new sentence, its VERY subtle.

 

[DanB91]

yep, its new name is alex, its pretty realistic

 

[bobobo]

Can someone share the voice file with me?

That is as long as it is legal.

As I am not getting my Leopard dvd till next week!!!

 

[bobobo]

BTW, I am talking about the alex voice file.

 

[richard.mac]

alex lives in /System/Library/Speech/Voices/Alex.SpeechVoice im not sure if it will work in tiger and i dont know a good upload host. the folder is 669.2 MB

 

[unity]

Not legal, and it wont work, I just tried it - maybe the one I transfered the file too is too weak.

 

[bobobo]

The Alex voice file is ~700MB?!