Hi all,
I just wanted to come on here and state an observation that a lot of us probably noticed, but would love thoughts/perspective/discussion.
I've noticed that when it comes to punctuation, primarily question marks and exclamation marks, the eloquence voices are the only voices that read those well. A text like "good morning!" (with an exclamation mark) is read differently than "good morning." with just a period, and I wonder why this is.
Are there any settings I could adjust to make it more expressive? I noticed that, for example, the Alex voice does a great job with question marks but not exclamation marks. And you can't have everything, so if i switch voices, maybe that's just something I deal with. But I wish you could change its level of expressiveness or something.
Would love everyone's thoughts, opinions, and perspective, especially coming from those who love Alex. Does it bother you that not all punctuation is properly conveyed in a message or email?
P.S. I tried that custom punctuation group where I made it say "exclamation mark" and that lasted about five minutes before it got on my nerves.
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stick to Eloquence
stick to Eloquence the en.!!!!!!!!!
@dennis
I am, I'm using Eloquence on my phone. I have Alex on my mac. I was just saying that if I _did_ switch, it would be something I'd just have to deal with. But context matters, at least to me. Or should I say, inflection.
I know how much you love Eloquence :)
Does the pitch range eloquence make any difference for this?
Does the pitch range make any difference in this case? I know that’s more inflection than expression. I know what you mean about eloquence. It definitely reads things with! Differently with the period. That’s the way that that’s in the size is. I think some of the older voices are actually, but it was expressing the proper way for certain punctuation marks than some of the newer ones. I know there’s a lot of people who love eloquent on here so I guess I’d stick with that you should be fine. But yeah, there are certain voices that are just not gonna express the same way. For example I love Karen premium, but she cannot distinguish between a? Or. Or an!. You’re looking Karen enhanced. But then if you use regular, Karen and she can distinguish your period in a? So I’m not sure why some of them are robotic. Voices are actually more expressive in some ways. I guess we’ll have to see what happens as Voice is. Keep improving overtime that we get for our phones.
Turn up the pitch range
Hi,
Turn up the pitch range. That will make the eloquent voice sound more human. One of my friends has the Pitch range set to 100 and it sounds really good.
I turned up the pitch range
It sounds like it's super excited about everything. I'm not a fan, it doesn't sound very human like. Maybe I did it wrong?
You definitely didn’t do it wrong
You definitely didn’t do it wrong. Putting the pitch range John eloquence all the way up to 100 does make it sound like it’s super excited about everything. It’s very odd. I tried it once. I’m really not a fan.