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There's quite a difference between the "normal" voices in OSX, and the high-quality ones. If you have a few spare gigabytes, try out the French, Spanish, and Swedish versions.

For my kids, it's at least a few minutes entertainment to make the computer speak high-quality foreign curse words.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20082143-263/how-to-ins...

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I'd never noticed this before - cool! Samantha and Tom in the US English section sound particularly good.

The only major problem I seem to perceive is that the transitions between certain words and phones aren't smooth enough and are jarring. It doesn't sound like they're far off but I guess 90% of the work is in the last 10% ;-)

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