24 Hours of Leopard: "Alex," the new voice of Mac OS X

@nate: "Thought you might be interested to know."

You thought wrong, boyo.

I used to LOVE the talking moose! That came out for, what ... system 6?

i guess nate (#5) would have preferred one, long TUAW post, where readers would all be commenting upon all 300+ new features at the end of a singular article.

that said, re: the new alex voice: i'm not impressed. but i'm sure we'll get there, eventually!

I don't know... Alex sounds a little like a Dane Cook Speak n' Spell bit... AT&T is still a little further ahead than Apple on text-to-speech to be honest. They're especially ahead with their "Mike" voice, which I have heard over many an automated telephone system.

Joseph &c. -- regarding the graphic, well, it was late and I was tired, could not think of a good way to illustrate a voice. Hence, the Moose by the Universal Access icon. The Time Machine copy just happened to fall above UA on the 300+ features page, a coincidence (but a funny one nonetheless).

Please don't blame Erica for my graphic design (non)skills.

#6: Hear, hear.

Bye Nate! Don't let the door hit you on the way out!

TUAW, keep up the good work. This is excellent stuff.

Amazing... TUAW is like a petri dish for those sociologists studying the decline in manners brought on by blogs and the ease of commenting.
The only place I've seen more bile directed at blog entries is political blogs.
By all means, if you think entries here are lame, please do us all a favor and stop visiting/reading the feed. Some of us enjoy little snippets like this a few times a day, it is like a conversation with a friend -- it's not the New York Times.
And if you think that Erica Sadun and the other writers here are hacks, poor designers, atrocious writers... well then, you are of course free to start your very own Apple-related blog, where you can write glowing prose as befits the subject.
And then wait for the inevitable crass and insulting comments to pour in.

If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

This "24 hour hours of leopard" is a lame excuse to try and increase your site's traffic. One well written article on leopard would have been far superior. As such, the signal-to-noise ratio on your RSS feed just dropped below my threshold and I'm unsubscribing. Thought you might be interested to know.

Yeah but it's cropped horribly and makes no sense. It's called graphic design.