is ivona also open sapi compliant?
sent from my vinux4 linux laptop
On 09/17/2013 04:23 PM, Thomas Ward wrote:
Hi Michael,
What can I say? Companies are greedy and they get you to pay for those
voices more than once through exclusive licensing deals that only work
with a specific product rather than using an open SAPI compliant
interface. It sucks, but unless you are willing to tell them just to
stick it where the sun doesn't shine you have to pay up or shut up as
those companies are quite apparently unwilling to be reasonable about
how they sell and license their voices. It is for that reason I try to
only deal with companies like Cepstral that has reasonably decent
voices, for a reasonable price, with an open SAPI compliant interface.
Cheers!
On 9/17/13, Michael Gauler <michael.gau...@gmx.de> wrote:
That's exactly, what I don't like about this.
I know that nextup.com sell SAPI and non SAPI voices...
However, regardless of which Windows you have, it is impossible for end
users to buy Acapela voices individually for SAPI.
You can buy Infovox 4 on USB stick but that is usually limited to five
voices out of around 80.
On nextup.com you can get many of them, but they are only for use with their
own products and thus can't be used with all speech programs.
Assistive Ware on the other hand sells Acapela voices individually, but only
for Mac users.
I would like to have the same service for Windows, because Ivox 3 (Mac
version) offers more voices to select from than the Windows Infovox 4 Stick
product.
If nextup.com could sell SAPI voices like they do non SAPI voices and could
update to version 9.1, they could offer the exact same voice catalogue than
Assistive ware.
I am also aware of the upcoming JAWS 15 and the updated and new Nuance
voices.
And once more it seems that they are purposefully ignoring the third German
voice of Vocalizer Expressive, like the other company did with their voices
for NVDA.
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