OK WELL I HAVE A SUGGESTION WHICH MAY MAKE THINGS EASIER FOR PEOPLE
WHO WISH TO CALL YOU ON SKYPE, QUOTE YOUR USERNAME IN YOUR SIGNATURE
OR EMAIL MESSAGE.
FOR EXAMPLE MY USER NAME ON Skype is grtdane12 so if you write
something like callto:grtdane12 it produces a hyperlink and if that
is clicked on Skype automatically calls etc.
On 08/09/2007, at 2:10 AM, Jon Solitro wrote:
I am on skype as wel, can you guys each put me in your contacts if
you're on
skype, and if you see me, give me a call, Thanks!
Just use this email address.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jon
On 9/6/07 6:31 PM, "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Jon,
If you are sighted and need to get off to a quick start reading
electronic
books in PDF or Word format you might consider checking out
GhostReader.
This is a third party text-to-speech product by AssistiveWare, who
also
make VisioVoice, a product that a number of VoiceOver users like.
However, this is pitched at the mainstream text-to-speech market,
so it doesn't involve the full-system VoiceOver integration that makes
VisioVoice more expensive. What you would get are improved InfoVox/
iVox
voices and an easy-to-use interface for reading out documents and/or
transferring them to audio files that you can play back.
GhostReader supports
switching voices and, what is particularly useful if you need or
want to
read text in multiple languages, the ability to switch to InfoVox/iVox
natural sounding voices that handle other European languages with
correct text-to-speech rendering of accents.
Take a look at the web page at:
http://www.convenienceware.com/ghostreader.php
This might be easier for you to start with, since GhostReader supports
skipping paragraphs, replaying sentences, switching voices, etc. and
a bilingual single user license would be $59.95. There was also
extensive discussion about this and about the InfoVox/iVox voices
about a month ago.
It's still worth learning VoiceOver, and it can do things like zoom up
selective lines of text that the general zoom feature cannot.
VisioVoice
can zoom selected parts of the screen, and has lots more feature (such
as the ability to run VoiceOver for complete system functions in
languages
other than English). However, take a look at GhostReader and see if
it might work for you.
Cheers,
Esther
On Thursday, September 06, 2007, at 11:06AM, "Jon Solitro" wrote:
My name is Jon, I just began using the mac visionaries mailing
list. I
joined because I recently got my first Mac and can see well enough
to use
the zoom feature most of the time. I am in grad school now,
however, and
need to read electronic books. They are scanned for me either in
PDF or Word
format. I canot for the life of me figre out how to use Voiceover.
I went to
apple and downloaded the manual to listen to, and its pretty
general. I'm
still having trouble. Can someone walk me through it at all? Is there
someone I can get help from over the phone?
Jon
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Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Phone/tty (+61 3) 9747 975
Fax +61 3 9743 7954
mobile/sms: +61425 777 508
Skype: callto:grtdane12
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