Visio voice is an assistive technology software package. it has some talking functionality and some vision assistance technology built-into it. Infovox Ivox is the speech component which can also be integrated into voice over. Visiovoice can be used with or without voice over but if you use it with voiceover, you have to be practical about it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Cavendish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 6:50 PM Subject: voiceover and visiovoice Dear Listers, I've been looking at the assistiveware website with a view to udnerstanding how Visiovoice and infovox ivox work. Forgive my ignorance but with the best will in the world I do not understand how these two pieces of software integrate with Voiceover. I must be quite stupid or else software designers live on a different planet. Smile. Does visiovoice take over the functionalities of Voiceover? The assistiveware website talks of Visiovoice having its shortcut keys and etc. And then there's Infovoxand ivox on top of it. I give up, listers, I'm confused. I want the multilingual accessiblity but what happens to all the knowledge I have gained of how to navigate the Mac computer with Voicoever? Does this stuff have to be so complicated? Or maybe it is me. Let's say I want to use the linguistic abilities of Visiovoice or Infoxvox, can I still use the vo keys and other keys to navigate round the applications etc.? Or do I have to use Visiovoice specific keys? It's crazy. Why doesn't Visiovoice producers make it clear? And how does Infovox integrate with Visiovoice and then all of this with Voiceover? It's crazy and yet there must be some order in it because some of you seem to be using all three successfully. Please give me some clarity where the producers have failed or have not cared to. With many thanks in anticipation, Simon
