How do I add voices to Apple Speakable Items?

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Giaguara

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How can I add voices to the Apple Speakable Items?

And where can I find a Scottish male voice to add there? Glasgow, Shrek - any Scottish voice will do. :)
 
The facility is there ...
If you get the voice definition file, you can add it to the ~/Library/Voices folder.
That said, I haven't seen any extra voices floating around, but then I've never really looked for them.
 
Wow, I don't even have a ~/Library/Voices folder... makes me wonder if I installed them in the first place!

Edit: Yeah, I've got all the voices in there... weird!
 
Hm. I find only ~/Library/Sounds but no /Voices ??

In which format would the voices added have to be?

-- edit: found. System/Library/Speech/Voices/Whatever.SpeechVoice/Contents ... the voice description makes no sense if opened with a text editor :D
 
I'm pretty sure that the voice description files are not simple text files like .plist files are.

I've been Googling and Yahoo!ing since this thread was created, and have not found any information on adding voices to the Mac system, either for the classic OS or for OS X.

I think it would be safe to assume that no other voices exist for Mac OS X at this point in time.

Here is a great article on speech with Mac OS X:
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/03/17/speech.html?page=1
 
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