Re: Speak It! app to use Infovox voices on the iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad

2010-04-21 Thread Dan Roy
Esther: I take it you don't have an iPad to test this out on, but, I will throw this out to the list. I am wondering if it would be possible to capture an entire ibook and have it read out by this speakit software? that would be an interesting concept indeed! On Apr 20, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Est

Re: Speak It! app to use Infovox voices on the iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad

2010-04-20 Thread Courtney Curran
That's absolutely awesome, I wanted a male voice for my Ipod touch, I'm going to go buy the app now. I can't wait! On 20/04/2010, at 4:29 in the Afternoon, Esther wrote: > Hi All, > > "Speak It!" is an app that lets you use the Acapela group's Infovox voices on > the iPhone or iPod Touch, and s

Re: Speak It! app to use Infovox voices on the iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad

2010-04-20 Thread marie Howarth
Thanks for this Ester. You helped me understand the app a lot more and I can see how it may be useful to some. On 20 Apr 2010, at 21:56, Esther wrote: > Hi Marie, > > The Mac voices are more expensive than the extra voices for the iPhone/iPad > because the iPhone/iPad voices are only being use

Re: Speak It! app to use Infovox voices on the iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad

2010-04-20 Thread Esther
Hi Marie, The Mac voices are more expensive than the extra voices for the iPhone/ iPad because the iPhone/iPad voices are only being used for text to speech. What makes it expensive to get a good voice that will work with a Screen Reader is the extra configurability that will let this ope

Re: Speak It! app to use Infovox voices on the iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad

2010-04-20 Thread marie Howarth
Thanks for this information Ester. I have two questions. 1. Why are the mac voices so expensive compared to the extra voices on the IPhone/IPad? 2. Other than it being able to read books what else do you think this app could be useful for? On 20 Apr 2010, at 21:29, Esther wrote: > Hi All, >

Re: Speak It! app to use Infovox voices on the iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad

2010-04-20 Thread william lomas
shame can't use them as voiceover voices On 20 Apr 2010, at 21:29, Esther wrote: > Hi All, > > "Speak It!" is an app that lets you use the Acapela group's Infovox voices on > the iPhone or iPod Touch, and supposedly also for the iPad, on text that you > type or paste into the app, and create a