Hi Bryan and all, I'd like to make a couple of corrections about the Mac. I've seen a few comments based on very old out dated information that is no longer true for Mac OS. So I'd like to spend the next couple of paragraphs to point out some of these changes. First, the Outspoken screen reader for Mac no longer exists. It was discontinued sometime around the time Mac OS X came out. Apple has made its own sscreen reader, VoiceOver, which is built directly into Mac OS Tiger and Mac OS Leopard. There are many advantages that VoiceOver has over Outspoken. One of these is because VoiceOver is intigrated into the Mac OS installation you can install Mac OS with speech. You never have to depend on someone else to help you install the operating system. Second, it is true under Mac OS 9 and earlier the Apple voices were not very good. Under Mac OS 10.4 and later the speech quality is as good as if not better than Windows TTS engines. I've recently had a chance to play with VoiceOver on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard and it is extremely responsive. The TTS engines are extremely good. Third, a lot of people are all too quick to point out there is more software for Windows than Mac. This is true in some respects, but there is a lot of Mac stuff out there that probably goes unnoticed. One reason is not every computer store nation wide carries Mac stuff. You usually have to go to a special Mac dealer to get Mac software and hardware. Some dealers carry both, but they aren't as many as those exclusively selling Windows based PC software and hardware. Another reason Mac OS software may go unnoticed is that there is a lot more open source applications for Mac then there is for Windows. Since it is open source it doesn't ship with the OS or come on a cd from a computer store. You will need to download it from the internet, run it through the Mac compilers, and install it. No problem for guys like me who have been doing this for 10 years on Linux.
Bryan Peterson wrote: > And I don't know if it's improved much since the days when I was forced to > use it by the fact that my High School's computer lab was all Mac, but I > absolutely hated OutSpoken. I could hardly understand the darn thing most of > the time. And that annoying crackling noise it always made didn't help any. > Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
