Re: acapella releases voices for ipad

2010-04-17 Thread Mary Otten
With the advent of accessible Ibooks on the Ipad and this summer on the IPhone and IPod, I could envision these higher quality voices being made available as an add on for the Ibook reader, or perhaps bundled with it, but not for use as general system voices with VO. then, of course, it might be

Re: acapella releases voices for ipad

2010-04-16 Thread Esther
Hi Anne, Mary, Marie, Yuma, and Others, Anne, I was thinking about the Read2Me app on the iPhone, which I got when you first mentioned it used the Acapela voices. Marie's correct that most of these voice offerings are targeted at developers who use the voices in increasingly popular spoke

Re: acapella releases voices for ipad

2010-04-16 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
I have an app for learning german with the klaus voice. What is interesting is to include these voices as general ipad voices. Some hurdles to this include license to distribute them, which probably costs an arm a leg and fingers of the opposite limbs, and if these voices can be plugged into th

Re: acapella releases voices for ipad

2010-04-16 Thread Anne Robertson
The Acapela voices are already used in the Read2Me app on the iPhone. Cheers, Anne On Apr 16, 2010, at 6:14 PM, marie Howarth wrote: > how much are they though and from what I read in the article, its more for > developers? I don't see how they fit in with voice over or maybe I'm just > being

Re: acapella releases voices for ipad

2010-04-16 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I mainly want them to fit in with VoiceOver. I don't personally care about applications that use them separately. If it won't, I'm not going to bother with it. Regards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368

Re: acapella releases voices for ipad

2010-04-16 Thread marie Howarth
how much are they though and from what I read in the article, its more for developers? I don't see how they fit in with voice over or maybe I'm just being dumb. On 16 Apr 2010, at 17:09, Mary Otten wrote: > Oh I would love these to come to the IPhone/.IPod with the next os release. > For book

Re: acapella releases voices for ipad

2010-04-16 Thread Mary Otten
Oh I would love these to come to the IPhone/.IPod with the next os release. For book reading, Samantha would be kind of a drag. mary -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegr

Re: acapella releases voices for ipad

2010-04-16 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I'm wondering if they will actually tie in with VoiceOver and the language rotor. That's the only thing I'd really care about. That is where I also see the potential if possible. Regards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yaho

Re: acapella releases voices for ipad

2010-04-16 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi. That's freeking awesome. Since the IPad is running something like a pro-version of the same OS as the Iphone, it might also work on the Iphone. That's really awesome. Thanks for this information. Best regards Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblin

acapella releases voices for ipad

2010-04-16 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi list, Its been a while since i posted, and this one is as quick. Real busy :) oh, and waiting for my freaking ipad. Heres an interesting link for ebook fans http://www.acapela-group.com/acapela-tts-for-ipad-super-natural-voices-from-acapela-add-audible-value-to-rich-content-in-a-choice-of-22