Hello Josh,
Quite a few months ago, I put in an enhancement request to Apple to
include the eSpeak voices, or other lightweight set of multi-lingual
voices, in the Os so that non-English speakers could install the OS
without sighted help but I've had no reaction from them. I hope
they're thinking about it as this is a big problem for would-be blind
Mac users in nnon-English-speaking parts of the world.
Cheers,
Anne
On Mar 30, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
One of the somewhat common comments I hear from time to time from
potential blind Mac switchers is a wish that more text-to-speech
languages were available without having to purchase them. The
InfoVox voices are fantastic if you need or want a high quality
voice, but if you just need a quick and dirty way to read something
in another language, they are a bit pricey for some. Not everyone
needs voices that are that good.
Greg mentioned here that the integration of ESpeak into the Mac
speech system ought to be worked on. Does anyone know if any work
is being done on that yet? I did some searching, but didn't find
any information. This seems like something we should encourage the
ESpeak developers to work on.
Josh de Lioncourt
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