Apple acquired Siri in April 2010 and is expected to integrate its technology into iOS. Apple's interest in Nuance seems primarily due to their speech recognition technology rather than text-to-speech functionality, as Siri had used Nuance to power their voice-activated search. Moreover, the mirroring between the braille display device (in this study, it was analyzed using the braille pad simulator application on the tablet) and a. Rumors had pegged Apple's Nuance negotiations to be centered around iOS 5 rather than Mac OS X Lion, although there could be a broader agreement between the two companies. The new voices are distinct improvements over the previous text-to-speech voices. OSX Daily, however, points out that the voices are available online for sample: If you need the voices from a newer version I can get those as well. I have no idea how to convert them for use with Windows, but if you know then here you go.
The voices aren't quite yet usable in Lion, as Netputing notes that you currently get an error message in Lion when trying to install them. Here's a google drive link to the voices taken straight out of OS X 10.5 Leopard. The voices were actually found to be identical to voices from a Nuance speech product, seemingly confirming that Apple will be using Nuance technology in Mac OS X Lion. Late last week, Netputing revealed that Mac OS X Lion Developer Previews include an option to install new text-to-speech voices.
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