The iPal now works on a Mac. It is self-voicing.
I never considered one, but just heard from a doctoral student friend of mine who swears by it, and its speed. Antonio Guimaraes On Feb 16, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Caitlyn and Nickels wrote: > Hi, > > We have been kicking around the idea of getting a couple of new macs for a > couple of weeks now since bothour pc's are not working that great anymore. > The main thing that is holding us back is our heavy reliance on Kurzweil. I > am a grad student and we also use k1000 for scanning our mail daily. I know > we could either do a duel boot system or run a virtual machine and then can > use k1000 this way on the mac, but I wanted to ask knowledgable folks first > about this before we jumped in. > > We heard about another kurzweil product that is for the mac, but it's not > self voicing, and I don't know if vo works with it. Does anybody have any > mac specific solutions that work well for scanning text books? For scanning > the types we all get in the post? I use the bookmark features in k1000 > quite a lot, plus the dictionary a lot and have preferred it a lot for the > proof reading I do for book share over ms word. > > Oh, that's actually another question, we were told that pages actually isn't > that great or useable... > > Lots of this info is coming from people who don't use vo regularly. > > For us, though, this scanner stuff is the only thing standing in the way. > We do have a old power book, but it's the old non intel mac, so we're stuck > running leopard on it, can't do a virtual machine or anything on it, it > doesn't support the magic track pad, and we can't upgrade to snow leopard or > anything beyond what we already have on it(we already called apple about > it). > > Any help or anything would be appreciated! > > Thanks, > Caitlyn > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
