Hello all On Aug 25, 2009, at 12:29 AM, David Niemeijer wrote: > as Scott pointed out, space on the DVD alone > would already preclude all such voices to be high quality. All Infovox > iVox voices together already pretty much fill up a dual layer DVD so > there would be little space left for the OS :-)
No one is saying they should be high quality. The iPhone voices would suffice. The iPhone not only has a large number of different language voices, but a decent supply of regional voices within those languages as well. It seems like they would have been a bit more stingy if they took up so much space. I guess the point was mainly that at this point, the apple out-of-the- box solution for blind users is only available to those who speak English comfortably, and who have enough money to fork over for high quality acapella voices. And what of the rest of the people out there? Well they are out of luck for the time being. > > I also want to take this opportunity to point out that Apple does work > with us and Acapela to ensure good compatibility of VoiceOver with the > Infovox iVox voices (and visa versa) and foreign languages so Apple > certainly cares about giving non-English users access to a good VO > experience. It just doesn't care about giving them the ability to independently install the operating system and manage their bios as it does with the rest of its user base. But since you put it that way, all of us speak English pretty well. I know for me this is quite inconsequential because English is my first language and I had the money to pay for Spanish voices for my academic work. It just seemed like not that much to ask for since it's been something that is just offered with other solutions. When I downloaded NVDA for my Mexican friend's computer, and started the installer, it automatically came up speaking in Spanish. Linux gives similar support. But of course they both use espeak which is not a high quality set of voices. Quite honestly this thing about "high quality" has only come up since the days of Leopard and Alex. I used to use Fred, which worked just fine before apple broke it, but truly, if it is a choice between having "low-quality" language support vs no language support whatsoever, I would have to go with the former. Regards Justin Harford --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
