Hello Rafael,
Yes, you can get Spanish voices for VisioVoice. You have a choice
between Castilian or South American. You can listen to the voices and
get a 30=day trial of them, as well as a 15-day trial of VisioVoice,
from
www.assistiveware.com
Cheers,
Anne
On Nov 18, 2007, at 11:52 PM, Rafael Bejarano wrote:
Hi Anne,
Your finding that safari 3 was horrible in Tiger sure explains a lot.
I do not currently work in other languages, although I would like to
explore the possibility of reading and writing in Spanish on the Mac
at some point. Does VisioVoice read spanish?
Rafael
On Nov 18, 2007, at 3:14 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:
Hello Rafael,
I found the beta of Safari 3 horrible in Tiger but I'm having very
little trouble in Leopard.
As for my suggestions, Speak Selected Text works better on Intel
Macs than on Power PCs, although it is still a bit erratic even on
my MacBook. If you have VisioVoice, the Control-Shift-c command
always works for reading the whole web page. If you ever work in a
language other than English, VisioVoice would be an immense help to
you.
Cheers,
Anne
On Nov 18, 2007, at 8:59 PM, Rafael Bejarano wrote:
Hello Anne,
Thanks for the suggestions. I don't know if you've had a chance to
read my other e-mails regarding Safari, but I've never had trouble
navigating web pages with Safari 2. It's only since I upgraded to
Safari 3 that I've encountered navigational problems. In
particular, I find that (a) the cursors go to different places,
even though I have cursor preferences set in VO utilities so that
the keyboard focus and mouse cursor will follow the VO cursor and
(b) VO skips some of the content when I use the left and right
arrows to navigate. I find perplexing that these problems should
have begun after I updated to Safari 3. I am using an iBook g4,
which is a power pc machine, so maybe that has something to do
with the problem.
Anyway, I appreciate your suggestions.
Cordially,
Rafael
On Nov 18, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:
Hello Rafael,
I've had a look at npr.org and it is a busy site. Have you tried
reading the whole page by positioning yourself on "HTML Content"
and then pressing whatever hotkey you've set for "Speak Selected
Text".
Once the page has been read to you, you can select links by
pressing VO-u to get the Link Chooser Menu, or items by using the
Item Chooser Menu (VO-i).
The Link Chooser Menu gave me 265 links. To select a link, type a
few letters of the name of the link you want, then press Return.
You will be on the link. The same applies to the Item Chooser Menu.
With Grouping turned on, lock the VO keys (VO-Semi-colon) and use
down arrow to read through an article paragraph by paragraph.
Don't forget to unlock VO keys when you're done.
Cheers,
Anne
