hi all i just hope then that voices from i vox are now available for previously unsupported languages like japanese, chinese, etc
On 24 Aug 2009, at 23:39, James & Nash wrote: > > David I agree with you and Scott. Apple have done a fantastic job > with VO > and I have not said otherwise. The quality of the third party voices > such as > the ones you provide David are much better and yes of course i would > rather > use those than the voices I've heard on the IPhone. However, the > reason I > mention the IPhone voices is that if Voice Over continues as it has in > Leopard - only speaking in English - then non-native English > speakers who do > not feel comfortable enough with English to install or work with > their OS in > may not be able to afford the superb quality of DAvid's voices for > some > time. That was my only point, although I did not express it clearly > enough > and for that I apologize. > > Take care all and I'm sorry for any offense I caused. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Niemeijer" <li...@assistiveware.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 10:19 PM > Subject: Re: voices on os x > > >> >> Hi, >> >> I notice a lot people are complaining that Apple did not include the >> voices they now include with the iPhone 3Gs also in Snow Leopard. >> There may be a lot of reasons why they have not done that. I am not >> sure it is fair to say it is ridiculous of Apple without knowing the >> reasons behind it. Maybe the company they are licensing those voice >> from for the iPhone 3Gs is asking a ridiculously high amount per copy >> of Snow Leopard Apple will sell. Snow Leopard is sold much cheaper >> than most updates yet has been worked on for two years by a large >> team >> of engineers. I think that is nothing to sneeze at. Also, while >> people >> accept the lower quality of those voices for a mobile device, would >> the majority of Mac users accept it for Mac OS X on a desktop >> machine? >> Furthermore, do those voices support all the features needed for >> Speech Manager compatibility, or would that first require years of >> work? And, what about the third party voices? For Mac OS X there are >> multiple third party voices available for a wide range of languages. >> Should Apple just kill that business and possibly stifle innovation >> on >> the Mac platform in the voice area because voices in multiple >> languages already come free with the OS. For third parties it is hard >> to compete with free stuff, even if the third party stuff is of >> better >> quality. I know it would be bad for our business, but in the long >> run, >> it might actually also be bad for end-users. Things are not simply >> black or white. >> >> Anyway, I think there may be plenty of reasons for Apple's decision >> that we as outsiders do not know about. Some of those reasons you and >> I might consider good others we might consider bad, but I personally >> do not think we know enough about the issues involved to call it >> ridiculous, especially after all Apple has been doing these last >> couple of years in the accessibility area. >> >> Cheers, >> >> david. >> >> On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:04 PM, James & Nash wrote: >>> The voices from Acapella are great but it's rediculous that Apple >>> keep >>> avoiding the answer on whether or not they will ever include other >>> language >>> voices as they do in the IPhone. If they can do it in the IPhone >>> they can do >>> so in Mac OS X 10.6 +. This is especiallly true considering that >>> they are >>> based in California whre are large percentage of the population are >>> Spanish >>> speaking. The same is true for Braille. >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
