I would not upgrade to get better voices than those I already have, which
are good enough. Nobody in their right mind would use Microsoft Sam unless
they absolutely had to, so that's a very poor comparison. I would not use
Narrator unless I had to, either, but I would not upgrade from a platform
with which I can access all of my previously purchased software to one with
which I cannot, just for a better Narrator.
Can I play text adventure games using Windows 8.1? How about Lone Wolf and
Tenpin Alley? Jim Kitchen's games? If these cannot be played, why upgrade?
I cannot see spending more money to get less access.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question
Hi Devin,
Interesting enough you have hit upon one issue that should convince
people to upgrade if nothing else. The Sapi voices for XP such as
Microsoft Sam, Mary, and Mike were absolutely terrible. The newer Sapi
5.5 voices that come with Windows 8 are much better , and are
certainly decent for games and other TTS enabled applications. If
nothing else better Sapi voices should be one thing that would
interest XP users in upgrading to Windows 8 or Windows 8.1.
Cheers!
On 12/24/13, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote:
I totally agree with the devs on this one. I have a Windows 7 laptop,
a mac desktop, an iPod touch, and soon, tomorrow in fact, a new
android phone, running, unfortunately, android 4.0, the latest being
4.4. Anyway, I seriously don't see much need in sticking with XP
anymore. Windows 7 is good, windows 8 is cool, so my goodness, why not
leave Microsoft Sam and his depression behind?
Sent from my iPod
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