Hello
can you tell me what great additional navigation and use options to
VoiceOver it gives me?
the visual voice product that is
what does it do for voice over that I can not do currently?
thanks
Hank
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From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 3:26 PM
Subject: GhostReader and VoiceOver friendly text to speech mp3 [was Re:
textfile to mp3]
Hi Hank, Dan, and Dennis,
GhostReader for text to speech is bundled with the InfoVox iVox voices for
use with this application, currently $39.95 for a single user, 1 language
license, and it can be used both for listening and for saving to files. I
think
this product is targeted at the general text-to-speech market of users for
listening to documents or converting them to audio files for the
convenience
of later listening, possibly on a portable player. They have a
try-before-you-buy
downloadable demo.
you can not use the voices with this version with voice over though?
The GhostReader product page states:
"The voices you get with GhostReader will work in GhostReader and not
system-wide, for system-wide voices you should check out the Infovox iVox
voices, which can be used with any application, including GhostReader. We
offer an attractive Infovox iVox and GhostReader bundle for US$/Euro 159
(109 until 31 October 2007) for US English, US$/Euro 229 (159 until
31 October 2007) for non-Scandinavian European languages, and
US$/Euro 369 (279 until 31 October 2007) for Scandinavian languages.
Please purchase these through our AssistiveWare website."
The InfoVox iVox voices by themselves are $99.95 for US or UK English.
If you heard Gordon's demo on ACB Main Menu of running Windows on the
new Intel Macs with Fusion or Parallels, at the end of April, he was using
one of the UK InfoVox iVox voices.
As Greg states,
VoiceOver can use any SpeechManager voice from Apple or other vendors.
and GhostReader can also use the default Apple voices or any other voices
you buy.
Anne recommended VisioVoice, which uses the InfoVox iVox voices, but
also gives great additional navigation and use options to VoiceOver. For
non-English speakers, it also gives the VoiceOver capability of installing
and managing the system out of the box that is not possible in the current
version of VoiceOver. So a French user who wants full VoiceOver
accessibility to the system could buy VisioVoice for $249 or 249 Euros,
get the
great sounding voices in French and one English voice, the additional
hot key, local screen enlargement, and other navigation options, and also
the text to speech features of GhostReader for creating audio files.
The InfoVox iVox voices give good voice options for other European
languages, so this could be useful for reading/listening in another
language with the addition of a language pack.
Hope this helps
Cheers,
Esther
For text to mp3 files Assistiveware has started selling a
product called ConvenienceWare GhostReader:
http://www.convenienceware.com/ghostreader.php
This uses the great-sounding voices of VisioVoice, and
is VoiceOver friendly. Like VisioVoice, you
can buy language packages that do text-to-speech in
a wide variety of languages. It's cheaper than
VisioVoice because the voices are used for document
reading and text-to-speech, but not for the full
integrated support of VoiceOver. You have the
same control options for skipping sentences or
paragraphs (or jumping back to read sentences)
that VisioVoice gives. You can also switch voices
midway. And you can convert text files to audio
files or iTunes tracks.
Cheers,
Esther
On July 28, 2007, at 10:09AM, "Anne Robertson" wrote:
Hello,
I use VisioVoice from:
www.assistiveware.com
It's also a nice little reader and comes with great-sounding voices.
Not cheap, though.
Anne
On Jul 28, 2007, at 9:07 PM, Dennis DiBona wrote:
Hi List
what is a good program that is vo friendly to convert text files to
mp3.
Dennis
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