Does Leopard's text to speech offer any new or more understandable voices?

I haven't moved up to Leopard yet. I have read that Leopard is suppose to offer some improvements in the text to speech voices, however I can't find any information from Apple about these changes.
Does Leopard offer any new or more understandable voices?
Does Leopard other any changes in the text to speech implementation?
Thanks

Archie Robertson wrote:
Steven Whatley wrote:
Or do you get multiple voices in each Info-Vox language pack? That wasn't clear to me on their web site.
Exactly so. With any purchase you get Heather (US English). The US English pack includes Laura, Ryan, Kenny, Nelly, Jane, and John, giving 7 voices for $99, or $14 apiece. Cepstral voices are $30 each.
British English gives you Heather, of course, along with Graham, Lucy, Peter and Roger. 5 voices for $99, or $20 apiece.
French gives you Heather again, plus Alice, Julie, Claire, Bruno and Pierre.
And so on.
OK, so one does get more voices with Infovox. However, after listening to the American English voices, I would probably only use Heather, Laura, and Ryan.
Just curious, how are using the other language voices for speaking English? Sounds like the would be fun to occasionally break the monotony of hearing the same voices all the time. I wish either had a good Aussie accented voice.
Enjoy life,
Steven

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