Anyone miss certain words with Voiceover english voices

2014-07-18 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi all, I was just simply wondering, regarding to whatever english voice you use with Voiceover are there at all times, where say your reading a piece of text from Safari and you miss hear the odd word hear and there. I'm sorry if that isn't descriptive or thought out more but to just to explai

Re: Anyone miss certain words with Voiceover english voices

2014-07-18 Thread David Taylor
Hi, I know exactly what you mean. None of the voices are clear and reliable on pronunciation. For this, and other reasons, I'm currently trying Moira, the Irish voice, but if you need a male for hearing reasons, she is not an option. Have you tried Lee, Tom etc? Go to vo utility, speech, voices

Re: Anyone miss certain words with Voiceover english voices

2014-07-18 Thread sarah leadbetter
Hi, yes when i first had my i phome and my i pad i used Daniel and when i did typing a text i couldn't tell the difference between m and n so i was sending texts that didn't make sense, also i found with that voice it was missing of bits of words while on safari, that's why i use Karen voice ins

Re: Anyone miss certain words with Voiceover english voices

2014-07-18 Thread Robert C
I find these quirks in Voiceover amusing. On my iPhone 5, VO will mangle certain last names in Contacts unless there happened to be other text following the last name. Quote of the nanosecond . . . Chocolate is good for three things. Two of 'em cannot be mentioned on public television. Rober

VM and Windows 8

2014-07-18 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. I have had great success installing Windows 7 without sighted assistance in a virtual machine, but Win 8 stops at some point and I cannot get speech. Does anyone know where the holdup is, and if there is some way around this? Bill -- You received this message because you are subscribe

Re: Anyone miss certain words with Voiceover english voices

2014-07-18 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. Most of the time i use the voices from infovox. I use heather and the danish voices. They are not really expensive anymore, you can buy them for a reasonable price. You will not have to pay upgrades all the time, mine is very old, and they have been upgraded a lot of times. Best regards A

Re: External sound device.

2014-07-18 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. This is an interesting thread. Now I ask a silly question. I have an external soundcard, this is the firewire mbox from avid, it is a very good sounding device, but rather inaccessible, so I will not recommend it. I have tried with some cheap devices, but I found the internal soundcard in t

What happened to the blind movie buff list?

2014-07-18 Thread Eric Brinkman
I was on the blind movie buff list back in 2008 and would like to get back on it and have access to the described content that it offered. However the list seems to be gone now. Does anyone know what happened to it and whether there is a similar list? I apologize if this is too far off topic for

Re: What happened to the blind movie buff list?

2014-07-18 Thread Karen Lewellen
I may be incorrect, but did not that list circulate stolen content? Kare On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Eric Brinkman wrote: I was on the blind movie buff list back in 2008 and would like to get back on it and have access to the described content that it offered. However the list seems to be gone now. D

Re: Mac, 2nd Gen Stream, & Audible.com

2014-07-18 Thread sarah leadbetter
Hi i go onto the audible web site on my Mac book air, when i buy a book it goes straight into i tunes and automatically starts playing, you will find all your boks in the audio books part of i tunes. I also click on my library on the audible web site and the list of your books appears, click o

Re: What happened to the blind movie buff list?

2014-07-18 Thread May McDonald Homuth
No it did not and it is a closed list now. May and Leader Dog . . . www.canadianlynx.ca m...@canadianlynx.ca On Jul 18, 2014, at 11:46 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > I may be incorrect, but did not that list circulate stolen content? > Kare > > On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Eric Brinkman wrote: > >> I wa

Re: VM and Windows 8

2014-07-18 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
That's the problem I had when I tried installing Windows 8. I have asked this question on list quite a lot but never got any answers. Kawal. > On 18 Jul 2014, at 04:20 pm, Bill Holton wrote: > > Hi. > I have had great success installing Windows 7 without sighted assistance in a > virtual mach

Re: 2nd iCloud account

2014-07-18 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Yes. Your new account will have separate name and password, and if it's just used for email, that email address is its username. Both Mac and iOS impose limits on secondary accounts, but email is not one of them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "M

Re: 2nd iCloud account

2014-07-18 Thread Robert C
Good. Yes those limits are not a problem at all for this. Quote of the nanosecond . . . Classified Ad: Super Bowel party Robert & Annie Yanni ke7nwn E-mail- gone.to.da...@gmail.com On 7/18/2014 10:33 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: Yes. Your new account will have separate name and password,

Re: VM and Windows 8

2014-07-18 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
Try pressing return. I think it's asking for a product key or the edition of Windows to install. On 18/07/2014 16:20, Bill Holton wrote: Hi. I have had great success installing Windows 7 without sighted assistance in a virtual machine, but Win 8 stops at some point and I cannot get speech. Doe

How to Install Windows on a Mac With Boot Camp

2014-07-18 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
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Re: External sound device.

2014-07-18 Thread Terje Strømberg
I do not use Asus at the moment, but have been near a push at the buy button because they have headphone amplifier with volume control and audio/mic input i.e. analog audio input. In my case this make a difference. Others want an external cheap usb sound card as a backup if the internal sound mu

KEY Chain for the Mac past Issues.

2014-07-18 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello. In the last two days I have had to do a clean install of my Mac again even though I did it last week. What happened was that I shut my Mac down at the beginning of this week as I went away and didn't want anyone to get hold of the information in case there was a break-in. So I had passw