Hello,
I'm an AT teacher at a community center for the blind in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
This week I submitted a funding request for an iPad, based on the rumors
that IOS 7 will come with the Carmit Hebrew TTS.
If indeed Carmit will not be included with IOS 7, this will be a great
disappointment.
I work mostly with seniors and most of them do not understand enough
English to use VoiceOver.
I do have a couple of students that bring in their own iPads, but they have
enough remaining vision to use it with Zoom.
At the moment all I can offer blind students that just want to go online
and use e-mail is a Windows PC with JAWS. A very expensive proposition.
For many of them an IOS device with Hebrew TTS would suffice.
There are Android alternatives in the making, but those would include
buying a third party TTS.
I also think that at the moment IOS with VoiceOver, offers a more mature
screen reading solution then Android.
If Apple doesn't release Carmit with IOS 7, they will lose the momentum in
the Israeli market and we'll end up opening an Android class instead.
Thanks,
Zivan Krisher
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