I told you over the weekend that Apple a implement a series of new voices in Mac OS X Lion for the text-to-speech function. These voices were implemented using the technology of the company Nuance, which specializes in text-to-speech and speech-to-text systems. The interesting part is that now Mac OS X Lion can recite text in over 30 languages, including Romanian, and I can only think of how such a system could be implemented in iOS as well. Text-to-speech would be one thing, but a voice command recognition system or one that would write after dictation in Romanian would be really great for us and would bring iDevices on an equal footing with Android terminals.
Until another one is below some of the new voices used in Lion. Everyone praises them considering that they represent a great improvement over the old Mac OS X voices, what do you think?
- English American Accent – Samantha
- English British Accent – Serena
- French Canadian – Felix
- Spanish – Monica
- Finnish – Mikko
- German – Yannick
- Mandarin Chinese – Mei Ling
