Hi Yuma, I'm pretty sure I answered this before. There is a Japanese voice for the Mac that you can get from the DTalker web site:
http://www.createsystem.co.jp/dtalkerMacOSX.html In order to read this with VoiceOver, you're going to have to run the page through Google Translate. Although you can presave a bookmarklet that will let you automatically translate a web page to another language, the simplest way to get this information is to copy the above link, then go to the general Google Translate page at: http://translate.google.com/# and paste the URL into the text box. You should be positioned there when you go to the page, and when you first press tab you should reach the pop up button for the language you want to translate from. (Shift tab to move back to the text box for the URL, or you can use item chooser menu to look for "Enter text or a webpage URL" and then VO- Right arrow to the text box.) Set the first pop up button to Japanese (VO-Space, then press "J), then tab to the next pop up and set the language you want to translate to (e.g. English, French, etc.) Tab to the "Translate" button and press (VO-Space) to get a translated version of the web page. Here are some excerpts: <begin excerpt> "Dokyumentotoka for Mac Ver3.0" • Products • Updater • ORDER HERE <end excerpt> the "ORDER HERE" location is a link to: http://www.createsystem.co.jp/dtalkerMacOSX.html#DTalkerV3MacPackage (all the pages are in Japanese -- you need to use the Translate option to let VoiceOver read them) Translated price information: <begin excerpt> Sales order form from our packages Market price 9,975 yen (9,500 yen tax) +1,050 yen (tax included shipping fee) Download from Bekutapurorejisabisu Price: 8,925 yen (8,500 yen tax) <end excerpt> the page gives links to where you can either purchased boxed (first listed option) or downloadable (second listed option) versions of the software. The main page also appears to have recent updates that work with Leopard (of both the voices and the speech engine for software development). However, Snow Leopard supported voices do not appear to be available yet: "For current <BR> Snow Leopard support, Speech Manager compliant "Takashi" "practice" with regard to the, Snow Leopard 64-bit is not supported. Compatible version is currently under development, upon completion, will be published as a free upgrade from version of our page. Now thank you for your patience." HTH Cheers, Esther Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > > Hi All, > > I've downloaded a voice from seraproc. scottish heather for gigges, > and though it is not as expensive as infovox, the voice isn't as high > quality, and there are a lot of pronouciation errors. Or perhaps its > because scottish is harder to understand. > > At any rate, you can't download obama or arnie's telephone convo like > voice, and some of the other voices are more for the novelty than > anything else. Who wants to listen to a jamaican accented black woman > to read your jack kerouac ebook? It's more for the fun than anything, > but in the end the price don't make it an interesting offer. > > I went there initially for the japanese voice, as i speak japanese > fluently, but they don't sell it for license reasons. > > If anyone knows where i can localize my language to japanese, please > hit me up. > > Thanks, and best > > Yuma > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
