I agree with you.The quality of the InfoVox voices is fantastic, but people may not have the funds immediately to hand. I was fortunate enough to buy them a few years ago but if you are a first time Mac buyer, you may not have budgeted for such a things.
Take care James ----- Original Message ----- From: "a radix" <anou...@home.nl> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 7:16 PM Subject: Re: voices on os x Hello, well maybe they should consider low quality voices for other languages then if they dont want to do all specefic ones, i mean SOME speech in your language is better then none, right? I am not really technica lbut I think hal has something like that with orpheus, although it may not be that high quality it is certainly usable, and IF you want something better you could always opt to buy infovox or whatever other commercial engines are available. Just my opinion, Greetings, Anouk, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Krister Ekstrom" <kris...@kristersplace.com> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 7:59 PM Subject: Re: voices on os x Furthermore, the high quality voices are so language specific that it's virtually impossible to read anything but the language that the voice is made for. So therefore, if i want to read something in Swedish, i must use a swedish voice, or viseversa. This was not the case with the high definition voices like Infovox Ingmar. That voice is quite tollerant if you want to read english texts with it. Of course, it becomes Swenglish but it's understandable. This will be hard with Alex, because he's made for reading in English, if you see what i mean. /Krister 19 aug 2009 kl. 18.37 skrev James & Nash: > This makes things very difficult for those people who may not have > enough competency in English to install the OS and use it until they > can buy the InfoVox voices. Having Alex read French or any other > foreign language with an English voice is not acceptable. > > Let's hope that they will fix this issue in the near future. Perhaps > I'll point out to them that users of Orca in Linux and NVDA in > Windows have speech with E Speak which gives users about 50 voices. > Braille access is also given through BRLTTY. > > Hopefully though, voices for other languages will be added in some > future update. > > Take care > > James > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Søren Jensen > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:00 PM > Subject: Re: voices on os x > > I totally agree. It's really odd that Apple doesn't put these voices > in Snowleopard when they already are on the Iphones and the Ipod > shuffle. Sounds like they didn't know they exist when they say it's > too late to put them in Snowleopard. If they really wanna put these > voices in Snowleopard, they could easily make a Voiceover update > like the update for the Braille displays last year... Sounds like > they don't wanna put these voices in snowleopard... :( > Best regards: > Søren Jensen > Mail & MSN: > s...@coolfortheblind.dk > Website: > http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ > > On 19/08/2009, at 17.26, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Will, >> >> On Aug 19, 2009, at 2:40 PM, william lomas wrote: >> >>> they told me is was a bit late now for snowleopard >>> >> That's a bit disingenuous of them! I've been bellyaching to them >> about this for as long as we've had VoiceOver. I wouldn't hold my >> breath if I were you. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >>> On 19 Aug 2009, at 13:34, James & Nash wrote: >>> >>>> I do not understand why they simply do not include them with Snow >>>> Leopard as they are already there in the IPhone. >>>> >>>> Take care >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: william lomas >>>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:28 PM >>>> Subject: Re: voices on os x >>>> >>>> no there isn't. apple have said they would possibly include the >>>> ones in the i phone in the future >>>> >>>> On 19 Aug 2009, at 13:24, a radix wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello, I know voicover will come with alex and some other >>>>> voices, but will there be standard other language ones? As you >>>>> know I dont use voices a lot myself but I am going to post about >>>>> my new mac on dutch mailing lists and I am pretty sure this >>>>> question will come up by a lot of people because most ppl use >>>>> mainly speech. >>>>> Greetings, Anouk, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
