Geek Posted July 29, 2011 Posted July 29, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/voices-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Voices in OS X Lion" title="voices-os-x-lion" width="620" height="201" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19446" /></p> <p>One of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">OS X Lion</a>‘s many great new features are all the new high quality multi-lingual voices (<a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/25/how-to-add-new-voices-to-mac-os-x-lion/">here is how to add them yourself</a>). If you went on a voice adding spree like I did, you may quickly realize that all these new voices take up a fair amount of disk space, each weighing in around 400 MB. On a large enough hard drive that isn’t too big of a deal, but I’m on a MacBook Air with 64 GB so 10 voices taking up 4.3 GB of space matters to me. </p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Delete Downloaded Voices from OS X 10.7 Lion</h2> <p>Using Finders great “Go to Folder” feature of Command+Shift+G enter the following path:</p> <p><code>/System/Library/Speech/Voices/</code></p> <p>You’ll see a list of voices, but notice they come in two formats: Voice and VoiceCompact, you can keep VoiceCompact because those are just the short samples, it’s the Voice.SpeechVoice you want to delete to remove the full voice. </p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/remove-voices-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Remove Voices from OS X Lion" title="remove-voices-os-x-lion" width="620" height="165" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19445" /></p> <p>For a quick example we’ll get rid of Samantha – sorry Samantha, you sound lovely but you take up too much space – so we will be deleting Samantha.SpeechVoice. Select that folder and either drag it to the Trash or hit Command+Delete to place it there automatically. Because the voice files are contained in /System/ you will need to authenticate with the administrator password in order to delete the file, so type that in, then you can empty the Trash. No more Samantha! </p> <p>Thanks to Marfil who <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/25/how-to-add-new-voices-to-mac-os-x-lion/#comment-217677">left this little tip in our comments</a>.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/WZOh7EmdkkeWudKVXVrYmVXhOm0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/WZOh7EmdkkeWudKVXVrYmVXhOm0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/WZOh7EmdkkeWudKVXVrYmVXhOm0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/WZOh7EmdkkeWudKVXVrYmVXhOm0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=ZwQJH02Eers:PUHwf9V1ouc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=ZwQJH02Eers:PUHwf9V1ouc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=ZwQJH02Eers:PUHwf9V1ouc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=ZwQJH02Eers:PUHwf9V1ouc:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=ZwQJH02Eers:PUHwf9V1ouc:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=ZwQJH02Eers:PUHwf9V1ouc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=ZwQJH02Eers:PUHwf9V1ouc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/ZwQJH02Eers" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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