hi
I guess i can use a cepstral french voice hmmmm, possibility
regards, will
----- Original Message -----
From: "Buddy Brannan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: potential user questions
On May 27, 2006, at 9:12 AM, will wrote:
hello to all you mac blind users,
I am considering buying a Mac book laptop and using voice over
I really, really want a Macbook! :-) Really!
i do have a few queeries
1. As I am a windows user but am beeing converted with audio demos of
voice over, i want to know is it easy to get started?
YES!!!! If for some reason you don't get the startup thing that talks you
through getting started with VO, it really is easy. Fact is, I bought
this G3/500 MHz iBook last year along witha shiny new copy of Tiger and
installed it completely independently. In order to actually get real work
done, you need only a few commands: navigation commands (VO keys+arrows),
select an item (VO keys+spacebar), click the mouse (when the other
doesn't work--VO keys+shift+spacebar), interact (to use lists, HTML
content, and the like--VO keys+shift+down arrow and VO keys+shift+up
arrow to stop interacting). If you learn just a couple more, you can
really gtet going, and it really is that easy. Oh yes, and VO keys+F8 to
customize how it behaves. While you'll find a complete list of commands
in the help, as well as at
http://home.adelphia.net/~bmss/vo/
you truly can get started with a very minimal set of commands and learn
the rest as you go.
2. is the macintosh a stable environment in which tow ork
If you mean "Does it crash often", I'd have to say no. There are times
where VO is sluggish, and honestly I'm not sure what is related to VO and
what's related to my slow Mac. But pages with flash content, for
instance, are hideously slow! Mostly though, when you find things that
work with VO, they work well, and you can actually do productive work
with them.
3. can i use chat clients with voice over like AOL instant messenger,
MSN messenger etcetra?
Yes. Fire (http://fire.sourceforge.net) is really fantastic. It takes a
bit of getting used to, but it really is very usable once you figure out
its ideosyncracies in how it works with VO.
4. I am a student at university here in the united kingdom, can i get
multilingual speech from the built in voice over voices, available to
me?
Unfortunately, no. Someonee else might want to address this further.
5. finally for now, smile, can i use skype with voice over, i.e. access
the call lists, make a call, etcetra
Yes, at least as of Skype 1.X. I haven't upgraded to the new version so
have no idea how accessible the new version is.
regards, will
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