I wonder if the Cepstral voices would work on a Mac machine? I seem to remember seeing links for that on their downloads page. I suppose then the only problem would be finding good, accessible games and software of the same caliber as what's on Windows. It's funny, but I remember one time we were having trouble with my PC back when I was still using Win98 Second Edition and my dad threatening to buy me a Mac. That was back in the days when the speech output was still crap though. And as for games I don't even know if there were any, leastways any that we could play. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 8:50 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] USA Games Engine was gma game engine
> 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] > --- 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]
