Thu, 14 Oct 2010 Narrator review
Mark-up text for conversion to speech with a reading tool that puts your Mac’s core features to good use
- Manufacturer: Mariner Software
- Pros: Customise and save core voices; automatic ‘casting’ in texts
- Cons: Stuck with OS X’s American accent
- Price: $39.95 (£25.90)
- Star rating:
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Using Narrator did make us aware of a glaring anomaly in the Mac’s speech implementation. All the available voices – close to 30 when you count the novelty voices – have American accents and, to be frank, that gets pretty annoying after a while. Still, that’s not developer Mariner’s fault, it’s Apple’s. Narrator simply makes the best use of what OS X’s built-in speech tools can offer.


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