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	Aug 29 2009	DAVIDN 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)		+4
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	Aug 17 2009	ZX Not working for me on - Snow Leopard 10.6 Build 10A432! Any chance of an update...? (Version 1.3)		0
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	Feb 27 2009	RANSKY 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)		+1
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	Feb 27 2009	SIMONM 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)		+1
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Feb 27 2009

SIMONM 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!
(Version 1.3)

Feb 27 2009

ANONYMOUS 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.
(Version 1.3)

	Apr 29 2008	AIKOUSHA 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)		-2
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	Apr 29 2008	ZX Simply the best Voices on the market!!! P.S- i tested every Voice available for the Mac.. (Version 1.2)		0
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