David, this is very ecxiting news. I filled out the survey and tried to
submit it but got a bad request error. Any suggestion? should I simply try
again? Is the server working alright?
Thanks!
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From: "David Niemeijer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 10:48 AM
Subject: New companion product for VoiceOver
In the discussions on Proloquo the last couple of days on this list
several people asked me on or off list about better voices for VoiceOver
and other additional functionality. At that time, I could not tell you yet
what I can tell you know, which is that we have been working on precisely
on such a product. A companion product to VoiceOver that gives VoiceOver
users access to the high quality, naturally sounding voices of the Acapela
Group and more. This product will be called VisioVoice.
VisioVoice is a product for blind and vision impaired Mac users that adds
multilingual support to Apple's excellent VoiceOver technology as well as
providing a number of other speech and vision related features to enhance
access to Mac OS X. For more information please see our press release at:
http://www.assistiveware.com/pr.php#PR170306
The press release also contains a link to a survey form that will allow
you to indicate what your own needs are and what features you would like
to see. Don't expect this to be the perfect solution you have always been
dreaming about, we can only get there step by step. As I mentioned
earlier, I am relatively new to the field of low-vision computing so we
might not get everything right the first time around. We need input from
people like the ones on this list to help us make sure the product does
what you guys need and want. What we hope to achieve is that VisioVoice
addresses some of the needs that Apple does not (yet) meet, but VisioVoice
is definitely not intended as full fledged screen reader in its own right
or as a replacement of VoiceOver. There will be certain areas that we can
cover and other areas where you will have to wait until Apple deals with
it. So when you use the survey form on our site to give suggestions,
please don't tell us about Apple bugs we should fix (because in most cases
we can't), but focus on things that are not core functionality of a screen
reader, but would be very handy to have as low vision or blind user. Or,
come up with things where you think we can possibly enhance some
functionality (without dirty tricks of course, because we do not want to
undermine the stability or security of your machine with all kinds of
patches).
If any of you guys are going to attend the CSUN conference next week,
please email me off-list so that we can setup an appointment to meet.
Thanks,
david.
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David Niemeijer, CTO
AssistiveWare(R)
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http://www.assistiveware.com/
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