I agree wit James and Nash (not for myself but others out there that might be a potential market) and they would not have to be high quality voices, i mean it would already just be a help if you could do basic stuff with them and if you wanted high quality you could get ivox or whatever other commercial altenratives are available. I mysel fuse hal for windows for example and it comes with a built-in speech engine called orpheus, now I dont call that exactly high quality but it is fast and gets the job done. Greetings, Anouk, ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Niemeijer" <li...@assistiveware.com> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 9:29 AM Subject: Re: voices on os x
> > > On Aug 25, 2009, at 12:39 AM, James & Nash wrote: >> 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 > > Ok, I think we agree. Yes, I agree that for non-English speakers it > would be practical if Mac OS X included voices for their own language > by default. However, 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 :-) > > 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. > > david. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
