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Rather stupid, but, Can I make the voice of my Mac sound British?

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iMacZealot

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I know, this is a really dumb thing to ask. I like British accents, and I think my computer would sound cool with one. How do I do this?
Thanks!
 
iMacZealot said:
I know, this is a really dumb thing to ask. I like British accents, and I think my computer would sound cool with one. How do I do this?
Thanks!
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I'm sure theres gotta be a voice file somewhere for this. :p

It'd be funny as hell too.
 
I was just listening to "frank" from that link and I nearly spat my drink out when I thought he said "im known to give good erections...."

Lawrence is a very good voice.
 
Project said:
I was just listening to "frank" from that link and I nearly spat my drink out when I thought he said "im known to give good erections...."

Lawrence is a very good voice.
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Hahaha, what did he say??
 
it's been over 20 years since text-speach capabilities was implemented into macs . it seemed the quality of that feature hasen't improved a bit. that's one of the things that i wanted improved on mac osx.
 
Project said:
I was just listening to "frank" from that link and I nearly spat my drink out when I thought he said "im known to give good erections...."

Lawrence is a very good voice.
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LOL
 
I love Millie UK English, especially when you set her pitch to low.

Has anyone actually bought one of these?
 
Ha! That is just awesome. My new toy. I could listen to Lawrence say "Whatever in God's name do you think you're doing?!" all day ("Bloody hell" is quote nice as well). :D
Since I have a friend who really needs German voices, I'd also like to know. Has anyone ever bought one of these?
 
iMacZealot said:
I know, this is a really dumb thing to ask. I like British accents, and I think my computer would sound cool with one. How do I do this?
Thanks!
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I remember going to great trouble getting the Mexican Spanish version of MacinTalk on OS9 some years ago. To my surprise, the Spanish accents sounded quite good speaking English phrases - especially "Catalina". Purrrrrr.. :p
 
pdpfilms said:
Hahaha, what did he say??
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"Im known to give great DIRECTIONS..." but because the end of good and the start of directions both are 'T' and 'D', they sound similar and kinda merged to create the funny comment.

Im seriously considering buying Lawrence though. I mean, use the sample thing and paste in an email and see how good it sounds. I could use this with Automator to read me my email to me in the morning when im getting ready for Uni to save time. I could even just use my mobile phone to wake the computer and run automator automatically I presume, and get the email read to me in bed :tu

Really though, my most obvious use of a great synthetic voice would be to read long articles to me when studying. I find it much easier to absorb information when people are speaking to me, over reading it.
 
iMacZealot said:
I know, this is a really dumb thing to ask. I like British accents, and I think my computer would sound cool with one. How do I do this?
Thanks!
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I assume you mean an English accent? Remember Britain also includes Scotland and Wales. I assume you don't want your computer to sound Scottish?
 
dr_lha said:
I assume you mean an English accent? Remember Britain also includes Scotland and Wales. I assume you don't want your computer to sound Scottish?
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I'm prety sure he wants either a Geordie or a Brummie accent.
 
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