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Mac OS X 10.5 reads Chinese


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Not sure if this was mentioned before on Apple's pages, but WWDC started, and they revised their 10.5 pages. A big feature to look forward to for learners of Chinese:

From:http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/features/accessibility.html

Alex: The new voice of the Mac.

The new synthesized English voice in Leopard, Alex, uses advanced Apple technologies that deliver natural intonation even at very fast speaking rates. Alex works with any application that supports Apple speech synthesis. VoiceOver also includes support for two-byte languages such as Japanese and Chinese.

Before the Mac's spoken voice only did English, so this is an upgrade that will definitely be worth the $129US cost to me.

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pretty sweet. 10.5 looks really nice, if my current laptop didn't suit its purpose as well as it does I'd be sweating a macbook pro.

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Cool, nice feature! Phonetically, Chinese is quite a slim language so I guess it should sound pretty accurate.

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Yeah, great news. I wonder when I can get a 'trial' version...

Anyway, planning on upgrading my MacBook later this year anyway, maybe I should just wait until October.

Thanks for sharing.

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