I was going to mention the same thing. If it is as good as they say
then I wouldn't have a reason to purchase addditional vvoices. I was
thinking of seeing what were good voice alternatives. I think I will
wait about a month after Lepard to get user reviews from sighted and
blind users.
On Oct 15, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
I wonder if some of the price drop is being driven by competition
from Apple's new voice in Leopard. From what I've heard the quality
is really good.
CB
David Niemeijer wrote:
I thought I would share this with you guys. It has taken quite a
bit of lobbying and a long time, but I am happy to announce that
today the prices for the Infovox iVox voices were permanently
lowered. Originally introduced as a solution for the low volume
accessibility market, it was found that also many educators and
consumers wanted to use these naturally sounding voices to listen
to documents, create personal podcasts and to help struggling
readers. With the new prices the voices are now within reach of
educators, students, people with disabilities as well as any other
Mac user who likes to hear his Macintosh speak. That includes you
guys :-)
All voices except the Scandinavian ones are now 99 USD/Euro for
the first language, with each language typically including
multiple voices plus the US Heather bonus voice, and 49.50 USD/
euro for any additional languages. Scandinavian voices were also
lowered in price. For more info see our press release: http://
www.assistiveware.com/pr.php#PR151007
Now some of you who bought the Infovox iVox voices in the past for
a higher price may be annoyed about the price drop, but please
keep in mind that if you would not have bought the voices I would
never have been able to show enough volume to Acapela Group to
convince them to offer the voices at lower prices. Many people can
now benefit from the lower prices and with Leopard's upcoming
multilingual support for VoiceOver the better priced Infovox iVox
voices will help expand the VoiceOver user community. Also keep in
mind that you would not have been enjoying the voices if you had
not bought them already.
Finally, last week a new version of VisioVoice was released with
greater VoiceOver compatibility and many other changes. Read more
about it here: http://www.assistiveware.com/pr.php#PR101007
Cheers,
david.
