Dear Brobin,
I'm not sure about where you might get German voices. I, too, am
interested in using Voiceover on my Macbook with other languages. I
understand that at present other than English language are not very
well supported by Voiceover but if you are a Braille user, refreshable
braille may be of some help. Additionally, there's a voice synthesiser
which I think is compatible with Voiceover offering some foreign
languages. It is called Visiovoice, and there is some more information
avilable about Visiovoice on www.assistiveware.com
Please feel free to contact me on my private e-mail. I, too, am
anxious to use Voiceover with other languages, such as Greek, Russian,
French, and I have some little left-over German from my earlier years,
so I understand foreign language users' needs.
My private e-mail address is:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Take care, aufwiedersehen
Simon Cavendish
On 7 Jan 2008, at 12:25, Robin Kipp wrote:
Hi Anne,
Thanks for the info! Well, I am in Switzerland but lived in Germany
before. So I installed the English MAC OS to be able to use Voice
Over,
but where can I get German voices? Thanks!
Robin
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To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of
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Subject: Re: Getting started with MAC and Voice Over
Hello Robin,
On Jan 7, 2008, at 7:22 PM, Robin Kipp wrote:
how can you view websites? When I go to a
website, Voice Over says "HTML content" but that's it.
When you hear "HTML Content", you need to interact with it (Control-
Option-Shift-Down arrow). The best way to read through a web page is
to navigate right (Control-Option-Right arrow). This way, you
shouldn't miss much. To stop interacting, you do
Control-Option-Shift-
Up arrow.
You interact with tables to read what's in them, with Scroll
Areas and
with anything you want to examine closely.
I notice your email address is in Germany, did you know that
VoiceOver
is more or less localised into German? Apple doesn't provide German
voices, but they are available from third parties.
Cheers,
Anne
