Hi Will,
On Sep 18, 2008, at 8:04 AM, Will Lomas wrote:
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no japanese chinese, arabic ...
The Multilingual Mac web site linked two product pages, one each for
Chinese and Japanese text-to-speech. The Chinese text-to-speech
product is from Key5, who have a Windows version and a MacKey version
with a beta for text-to-speech:
http://www.cjkware.com/products.htm
This seems to be part of an online reading tool package, so no clues
about accessibility. Here's the sample page for their text-to-speech
(based on recordings from their Windows product):
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2007/01/getting-your-mac-to-speak-other.htm
The downloads page mentions a trial version of their Text to Speech
module for the Mac:
http://www.cjkware.com/download.html#mac_download
<begin quote>
(For a trial version of the Text To Speech module, first download and
install the MacKEY5 trial version, then download and install the
MacKEY51u.dmg update (156MB) or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a free
trial CD.)
<end quote>
The Japanese text-to-speech product is from dtalker, but their web
page is in Japanese. Here is the link to the Google translate version
of their page:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createsystem.co.jp%2FdtalkerMacOSX.html&sl=ja&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
(If that link doesn't work correctly or gets broken by a line wrap or
extra space, set this up for yourself by sending the Japanese page at:
http://www.createsystem.co.jp/dtalkerMacOSX.html
through Google Translate's tools)
The problem is, the download's installer app runs with instrructions
in Japanese, so you'd have to copy and paste each of these
instructions into Google Translate. For example, here's the first page:
<begin translation>
Welcome! !
DOKYUMENTOTOKA Ver. 3.0 Thank you for your use.
The program, DOKYUMENTOTOKA the latest updates to the program
.
The update, the following measures.
1. Supports Mac OSX 10.5 Voice Over
Two. Updating to the latest language dictionary
Three. Women dictionary update
In addition, the update in order to enable the DOKYUMENTOTOKA V3.0
installed.
Toll must have been.
In addition, Voice Over To become effective, Mac OSX 10.5.4 or later
is required.
DOKYUMENTOTOKA how to update the information in each step.
<end translation>
So I don't know how far you will get with all of this.
The original Multilingual Mac page article that gives these links is:
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2007/01/getting-your-mac-to-speak-other.html
(Getting your Mac to speak other languages, January 21, 2007)
Cheers,
Esther
