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Infovox iVox 2.01

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Natural sounding voices in many languages to use in any app. Demo ($99)

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Version 2.01:

Supports Mac OS X 10.7, but requires this Lion fix which corrects an authentication issue.

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PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later

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DavidN (developer) commented on 29 Aug 2009

Infovox iVox 1.3 is indeed not compatible with Snow Leopard. A complete rewrite of the core iVox speech engine was necessary to make Infovox iVox 64-bit compatible and ready for Snow Leopard. Despite the major engineering efforts, Infovox iVox 2.0 is offered as a free update in order to facilitate the migration to Snow Leopard for those people who rely on these natural sounding voices to use their computer.

[Version 2.0b]

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zx commented on 17 Aug 2009

Not working for me on - Snow Leopard 10.6 Build 10A432! Any chance of an update...?

[Version 1.3]

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ransky reviewed on 27 Feb 2009

I've purchased both the US English and British English voices...they are top-notch. I've not found any other voices for the Mac that are as good. I use them to proof things I've written (nothing like having someone read your material back to you), as well as (with the GhostReader application) listening to text files read by one of the voices on my iPod. I do tend to find a favorite voice that I'll use 90% of the time, but it's nice to have the others available to add some variety.

[Version 1.3]

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simonm reviewed on 27 Feb 2009

The best French voices I could find, but very expensive. US$99 is for one language only. You'll find that in each language one voice is probably the best and the others you won't really use, but you're forced to buy them anyway. If you want a French, German, Italian, Russian and British English voice it'll cost you nearly $500!!!! If they charged a flat rate of say US$30 per voice I'm sure they'd make a lot more money. I'd buy at least two or three then, whereas now I won't buy any becuase it's not worth paying $99 for a few voices in one language...

[Version 1.3]

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simonm replied on 27 Feb 2009

OK, I got the pricing wrong, it's $49 per extra language, not $99, but you're still looking at say $297 for a selection of five languages, not exactly chicken feed. I can see some language schools wanting this but $99 seems like it'll put off many an occasional language student!

Anonymous commented on 27 Feb 2009

Price is all about value for money. If all you really want is a single voice then $99 is not cheap, but if you like to change voices depending on your mood or the material you are reading (news, book, your own writing) then getting 4 high quality French or British voices for $99 is not bad. Depending on how much you use text to speech it is well worth it's money or too expensive for your needs. Value for money is a personal thing.

If you are looking to only use the voices for reading texts or converting them to audio files for your iPod (so not for use with VoiceOver or other applications) then you might also want to consider GhostReader. It is 39.95 for one language and 74.95 for three languages. The voices are similar but only work with GhostReader.

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Aikousha commented on 29 Apr 2008

Where tf are the asian voices or better yet, an asian version of macintalk? Been waiting for that since before OSX even existed!
(for laughs), somebody needs to make a George Clooney, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, or even a Marilyn Monroe voice... I'd lmao, and then permanently make them my default voices.

[Version 1.2]

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zx reviewed on 29 Apr 2008

Simply the best Voices on the market!!!

P.S- i tested every Voice available for the Mac..

[Version 1.2]

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Sean Smith rated on 25 Jul 2011

[Version 2.01]

Downloads:6,036

Version Downloads:659

Type:Multimedia & Design : Audio

License:Demo

Date:25 Jul 2011

Platform:PPC / Intel

Price: $99.00

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Infovox iVox offers high quality, natural-sounding voices for use with virtually any Mac application that uses the Mac OS X text-to-speech features.

The Infovox iVox voices, once installed on the computer, appear in the Speech panel of the System Preferences and can be used by any application that has speech functionality, including Preview, TextEdit, Mail, VoiceOver, Microsoft Word (through its Speech toolbar), VisioVoice, Proloquo, GhostReader, Acrobat, AppleScript, Automator, Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh (version 3.0.4. and higher), TextHelp Read and Write Gold for Mac (version 2.1 and higher) and many others.

Voices are currently available for the following languages: Arabic, American English, British English, Czech, Finnish, French, Canadian French, German, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Flemish, Greek, Spanish, American Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish, Turkish.

Infovox iVox voices are sold per language with each language consisting of one or more male and/or female voices. All languages contain the American English Heather voice as a bonus.

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