Re: New, permanently lower prices on Infovox iVox voices and newversion of VisioVoice

[Cheryl Homiak]

I can tell you that I wanted to buy ryan and Heather directly from Acapella 
for my Windows machine; they had to be bought with their engine; I think the 
whole package was called iVox desktop or something like that. I don't 
remember exactly the price quote I was given--probably still have it 
somewhere--but I can tell you it was VERY expensive. I did use the 
evaluation package download for 60 days and was able to get those voices 
from nextup.com just for use with Text Alound and Weather Aloud but can't 
use them with Windoweyes or Jaws as the purchase was only for use with the 
nextup products. All of this is just to say that the Acapella voices are 
very expensive and both David and Acapella are to be commended that they are 
being offered for this price on the Mac. I have no doubt that David had to 
do some lobbying to arrange this. Whether the new voice from Leopard was a 
factor or not i don't know, but the acappella product for Windows does cost. 
It's also excellent and I'd pay for it for windows too if I could afford it.



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Cheryl

"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also."