me personally, i'd rather have a sexy english irish or russian voice
on mine. spanish would be good. southern is pretty in a girl friend
but so slow i doubt i'd get any work done. I'm from texas, so i can
say that you all. take care guys, i'm sure the women will chime in
soon with their picks. max
On Aug 28, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Scott Granados wrote:
Oh come on fellas, we need a hot Asian girl voice like they have for
SAPI 5.
I have to find it again but I did find this voice that was
shockingly real.:)
On Aug 28, 2010, at 3:13 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote:
Hi!
Haha! Victoria scares me, man. I actually have a friend who said
Alex sounded "hot" one time. I think he's the most comfortable
voice to listen to for long periods of time, particularly if you
have a headache. He's honestly the best voice I've heard yet on
both platforms, though Infovox Peter would definitely be my choice
on the Windows-side. However, the strange thing about that is that
he actually sounds different on Windows as opposed to the Mac
somehow.
At any rate, you can probably do most things on the Mac-side. Of
course, everything behaves differently, but the stability is very
nice However, I have noticed a lack of stability with the Native
Mac OS X voices since Mac OS X 10.6.3. I hope this isn't just me,
and while I know that doesn't sound too comforting I'm hoping for a
fix since I can't launch VoiceOver at all when it dies. The Ironic
thing is that currently, at least for me the Infovox voices are
more stable at this point.
Regards,
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On Aug 28, 2010, at 11:54 AM, focus wrote:
Hi Dave!
I'm a bit biust, but I think Victoria sounds much nicer than
Alex!! :-]
Colin.
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On 28 Aug 2010, at 08:15, Dave Taylor wrote:
They are both very expensive though. I would urge working out
which tasks
you can do on the Mac side. The more you can do on the Mac side,
the cheaper
the screen reader you will need. If you can use iWork and built
in Mac apps
rather than touching Outlook, for instance, you can probably get
away with
NVDA. Office 2007 is slow and, in my view, doesn't work that well
with
screen readers. Office 2007 and 2010 use an entirely different
interface
than anything else out there and I think are slow and hard to
learn. This is
the main reason I won't be surprised if I make that order in the
next couple
of weeks and go over to a similar situation where I use Mac for
everything I
can and only cross back when I have to.
Nothing works like VO, and nothing has a voice to match Alex, I
think you'll
hate everything about the way Windows is going, personally!
Cheers
Dave
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From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott
Granados
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 5:20 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Need Mac User's advice on which Windows screen
reader to
purchase and learn
Jaws is more or less the standard in terms of you'll run in to
that more
than others.
Window-eyes is another great option. I haven't used it but many
many people
think very highly of it.
What I would do if I were you is take that Mac, set yourself up a
virtual
machine and try the demo copies of all the options you listed.
Read the
manual / ask questions and you should be able to bootstrap
yourself. You
may need help creating the VM for Windows I had a help desk not
sure your
situation although there is a podcast that details this process.
I like Jaws myself but I have heard Window-eyes can be more
stable and
leaner on resources. Costs differ, JFW is probably the most
expensive.
Window-eyes comes with an option where you can pay for the
software in
installments which is a fantastic feature on a budget.
Hope that helps.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Jones" <openses...@me.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 8:52 PM
Subject: Need Mac User's advice on which Windows screen reader to
purchase
and learn
I realise the question might sound strange and even off-topic,
but I really
want to hear this advice from fellow Mac and VO Users. When I
last used
Windows I was able to get by with a screen magnifier and didn't
use a screen
reader. By the time I needed to start using a screen reader I had
already
moved to the Mac full time so VO was the natural choice. Now I'm
being
required to start using Windows again, along with Office 2007 and
Internet
Explorer 8 and I'm not sure which Windows screen reader I should
invest my
time and money to learn, or if one of them is more like VO than
the others.
I will be running either XP or Windows 7 under Fusion.
Please send your replies directly to me off-list as this probably
isn't a
thread that needs to grow here. I would be grateful for your
thoughts on the
following questions:
1. I've heard of Jaws, Window-Eyes, System Access, and NVDA. Any
others I
should consider?
2. Is there a Windows screen reader that works like VO?
3. Is there one Windows screen reader that is easier to learn
than the
others?
4. I was intimately familiar with XP but don't know Windows 7 at
all. Are
they similar enough that I should get Windows 7, or should I try
to get XP
so that I don't have to learn a new operating system along with
the new
screen reader?
5. I will probably only need to use Windows for the next 2 years
and most of
my work will still be done on the Mac. Given this limited time
frame, is one
of the Windows screen readers less expensive to own over that
time period?
TIA for any assistance,
Bryan
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